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好例子，学生可以从实验室中获得实际系统的实践经验，这些实际系统激发了讲座中描述的概念、算法和权衡。不幸的是，这样的实验室需要访问计算机的特权，并且为了保证托管网络的安全，通常需要专门配置网络，完全隔离，并定期重新安装。因此，该项目将来自多个来源的知名Linux内核实验室改编为一个名为Soft Ice（tm）的新的虚拟Linux内核架构，该架构实现了一个功能齐全、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，以利用该基础设施。该项目还开发了高质量的当前教学材料来支持这些课程。由于计算基础设施和实验室都设计得很容易复制，因此该项目面向全国受众。

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.