ResNet Symposium 2009
Implementing Dual-Boot Clusters in a Distributed Environment
| Presenter(s): | Surajit Bose Dustin King |
| Date and Time: | Sunday, June 28, 9:00am - 10:00am |
| Location: | Stewart Hall 220 |
| Description: | This year Stanford University Student Computing rolled out approximately 450 iMacs running both Mac OS X and Windows XP. In our distributed environment, this required the development of a number of new management systems in order to automate remote deployment of the images and control the boot process in such a way that users were given reasonable access to both operating systems. In particular, we developed a NetBoot environment for running imaging processes and created an EFI Shell environment that we installed on each machine to help manage the boot process. These systems work in concert with a system of scripts on our imaging server to orchestrate the management of these machines. |
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