Paul Gray's Bootable Cluster CD

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Paul Gray's Bootable Cluster CD

• Kristina Wanous
• Camille Frazier
• Tom Murphy

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What's a ship?

• A ship is not just a keel and hull and a deck
  and sails. That's what a ship needs, what a
  ship is... is freedom.

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Of course, sails etc. are important...

• Hardware
• Software
• Network

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Difficulties

• If you build it, you must administrate it
• If you install it, you must configure it
• If you use it, you must network it
• If you want to keep it, you must secure it
• If you use much data, you must keep it close
• If you share it, you must authenticate it
• If you depend upon it, you must maintain it
• If you break it, you must fix it
• ...Ouch.

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Enter BCCD

• Consistent environment
• Where does it work?
• Leaves no footprint
• Self-contained
• Automatic configuration
• Of the network and computers

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But...

• How is the BCCD different from other pre-built
  clusters (ROCKS, OSCAR) or bootable Linux
  distributions (Knoppix)?
• Educational focus
• Non-invasive
• Cluster tools, applications, debugging all built
  in... no need to configure

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Let's use it!!