PANTS Application Node Transparency System (PANTS) is a suite of programs designed for a Beowulf cluster of Linux computers that provides automatic and transparent load sharing of processes. A drawback of PANTS is that it lacks support for distributed inter-process communication (IPC). The DIPC (Distributed IPC) package enhances already existing IPC methods to be applied over a network. We integrated DIPC on our cluster with PANTS to provide this functionality. Together, these two packages extend the range of applications to benefit a Beowulf cluster while not sacrificing performance.

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Creator

• Waite, Jennifer Marie.
• Szelag, Michal Stanislaw.
• Terry, David Gerald.

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 01D017M

Advisor

• Finkel, David
• Claypool, Mark L.

Year

• 2001

Date created

• 2001-01-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Computer Science

Rights statement

• In Copyright