Running Linux on Back-end Computers in The Xinu lab
Douglas E. Comer, Xuxian Jiang · Purdue e-Pubs (Purdue University System) · 2003
The Xinu Lab at Purdue University contains equipment used for instruction and research in operating systems and nCl\vorks.In addition to conventional workstations.[he lab contains a set of back-end computers and facilities that umomatically allocate and download the back-ends as requested by users.The Xinu lab has been enhanced by imcgrating Embedded Linux into the set of available facilities.A user can download Linux on olle or more back-end computers, and can run an application on each machine that acts as a packet source, a packet sink, or another type of packet processor.This repon describes the [Cchnical details and challenges involved in porting Linux to the Xinu lab environment