A Job Brokering Shell for Interactive Single System Image Support

When users interact with computers, programs are run locally on the machine, and display on the local machine. Single System Image (SSI) is about taking a cluster of computers, and making them appear and behave as one system. SSI systems are typically non–interactive, batch systems. The Job Brokering Shell is a SSI model for running interactive processes on worker nodes, and having them appear to be running on the clusters gateway. The assumed environment is one of a gateway into a computer science student laboratory, where students can log in remotely to the gateway, and their programs run on the interior laboratory workstations.