GIT-CERCS-04-26
Bikash Agarwalla, Vanish Talwar, Sujoy Basu, Raj Kumar,
Automating Provisioning of Complete Software Stack in a Grid Environment
With scaling of data centers, clusters, and grids, it is going to be
increasingly difficult to download, configure, install,
update, and manage the software stack on the constituent nodes. Automation of
this process is needed for the system to scale
beyond a few hundred nodes. We present system architecture for a middleware
service that performs this task in an automated
manner. We propose that our architecture can be implemented as a grid service
as part of the globus toolkit. Furthermore,
we demonstrate the usefulness of the architecture through a prototype
implementation which automates the whole process by
integrating various existing solutions along with building intelligence into
the middleware to handle such tasks.