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

Soft Ice：可扩展、开放、完全透明且廉价的教育集群

• 批准号: 0410696
• 负责人: Alessio Gaspar
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of South Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-09-01 至 2008-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0410696&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Soft; Ice; Scalable; Open; Fully

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.

计算机科学（31）网络和操作系统本科课程是核心课程的很好例子，学生从实验室中受益，获得真实的系统的实践经验，这些系统激发了讲座中描述的概念，算法和权衡。不幸的是，这样的实验室需要对计算机的特权访问，并且为了保持托管网络的安全，通常需要专门配备网络，完全隔离并定期重新安装。因此，该项目从几个来源的知名Linux内核实验室适应一个新的虚拟Linux内核架构称为软冰（TM），它实现了一个功能齐全，安全，可扩展的原型负载平衡集群，为学生提供全权限远程连接到虚拟Linux主机和开发实验室的操作系统和网络，以利用这个基础设施。该项目还编制了高质量的现行教学材料，以支持这些课程。该项目面向全国受众，因为计算基础设施和实验室的设计都很容易复制。