Driven by increasing in the demand for cloud computing, providers are constantly seeking configuration mechanisms designed to simply install a reliable and easy-to-manage architecture—similar installing an operating system on computer using thumb drive. Accordingly, software components can be packaged into lightweight portable containers, then easily deployed managed through orchestration tools...

THE TOOL-SET for PVM will comprise a set of integrated tools which can either be used individually or in concert. THE TOOL-SET will be composedof a debugger, a performance analyzer, a visualizer, a deterministic execution controller, a load balancer including a checkpointgenerator,and a parallel file system. All tools will be available under the GNU General Public License Agreement. First versi...

This report provides an extended evaluation of Kurma, a practical implementation of a geo-distributed load balancer for backend storage systems. In this report we demonstrate the ability of distributed Kurma instances to accurately converge to the same solutions within 1% of the total datacenter’s capacity and the ability of Kurma to scale up to 8 datacenters using a single CPU core at each dat...