This paper introduces Archer, a community-based computing resource for computer architecture research and education. The Archer infrastructure integrates virtualization and batch scheduling middleware to deliver high-throughput computing resources aggregated from resources distributed across wide-area networks and owned by different participating entities in a seamless manner. The paper discusses the motivations leading to the design of Archer, describes its core middleware components, and presents an analysis of the functionality and performance of a prototype wide-area deployment running a representative computer architecture simulation workload.
@article{arxiv.0807.1765,
title = {Archer: A Community Distributed Computing Infrastructure for Computer Architecture Research and Education},
author = {Renato Figueiredo and P. Oscar Boykin and Jose A. B. Fortes and Tao Li and Jie-Kwon Peir and David Wolinsky and Lizy John and David Kaeli and David Lilja and Sally McKee and Gokhan Memik and Alain Roy and Gary Tyson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.1765},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
11 pages, 2 figures. Describes the Archer project, http://archer-project.org