Soft Ice: Scalable, Open, Fully Transparent and Inexpensive Clustering for Education

计算机科学(31)网络和操作系统本科课程是核心课程的一个很好的例子，其学生受益于实验室，以获得实际系统的实践经验，这些系统激发了课堂中描述的概念、算法和权衡。遗憾的是，此类实验室需要对计算机进行特权访问，并且为了确保托管网络的安全，通常需要专门配备、完全隔离并定期重新安装网络。因此，该项目将来自多个来源的知名Linux内核实验室改编为名为Soft Ice(Tm)的新虚拟Linux内核体系结构，该体系结构实现了一个全功能、安全、可扩展的负载平衡集群原型，为学生提供到虚拟Linux主机的完全特权远程连接，并开发操作系统和网络实验室以利用此基础设施。该项目还开发了高质量的当前教学材料来支持这些课程。该项目吸引了全国观众，因为计算基础设施和实验室的设计都很容易复制。

Computer Science (31)Undergraduate courses in Networking and Operating Systems are good examples of core courses whose students benefit from laboratories to gain hands-on experience with the real systems that motivated the concepts, algorithms and tradeoffs described in lectures. Unfortunately, such labs require privileged access to computers and, to keep the hosting network secure, often require networks to be specifically equipped, completely isolated, and regularly re-installed. Thus project adapts well-known Linux kernel laboratories from several sources to a new virtual Linux kernel architecture called Soft Ice(tm), which implements a fully functional, secure, scalable prototype of a load balancing cluster to provide students with full-privilege remote connection to virtual Linux hosts and to develop laboratories in operating systems and networking to take benefit of this infrastructure. The project also develops high quality current pedagogical material to support these courses. The project reaches a national audience because both the computing infrastructure and laboratories are designed to be replicated easily.