MultiOS - Trinity College Dublin
MultiOS - Trinity College Dublin
MultiOS - Trinity College Dublin
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<strong>MultiOS</strong><br />
How is it implemented?<br />
• standard mechanism for diskless workstations<br />
• alternate between management and user sessions<br />
• management software obtained over network<br />
• this then loads user image to local disk<br />
• user runs whatever environment is on the local disk<br />
• <strong>MultiOS</strong> considers this a black box<br />
Management software is Linux<br />
• can run from a RAM disk<br />
• advantages of a full OS + network-mounted filesystems<br />
• new tools can be written as necessary<br />
Europar’2000 31-AUG-2000 <strong>Trinity</strong> <strong>College</strong> <strong>Dublin</strong>; Page 5
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