PANTS is the PANTS Application Node Transparency System. It provides automatic and transparent load sharing on a Beowulf cluster of Linux computers. PANTS manages the resources of the cluster and executes processes remotely to share the computational load among the individual nodes. Even multiprocess applications not designed for a cluster can gain improved performance. Transparency is achieved with a daemon running on each node and PREX, PANTS remote execute, intercepting and remotely executing initiated processes.

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Creator

• Dickson, Kevin William
• Villamin, Sigmund-Bryan S.
• Homic, Charles R.

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 00D085M

Advisor

• Finkel, David
• Claypool, Mark L.

Year

• 2000

Date created

• 2000-01-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Computer Science

Rights statement

• In Copyright