Archer: A community distributed computing infrastructure for computer architecture research and education
Renato Figueiredo, P. Oscar Boykin, J.A.B. Fortes, Tao Li, Jie-kwon Peir, David Isaac Wolinsky, Lizy K. John, David R Kaeli, David J. Lilja, Sally A. McKee, Gokhan Memik, Alain Roy, Gary Tyson · 2008
Abstract. This paper introduces Archer, a community-based comput-ing infrastructure supporting computer architecture research and educa-tion. The Archer system builds on virtualization techniques to provide a collaborative environment that facilitates sharing of computational re-sources and data among users. It integrates batch scheduling middleware to deliver high-throughput computing services aggregated from resources distributed across wide-area networks and owned by different participat-ing entities in a seamless manner. The paper discusses the motivations that have led to the design of Archer, describes its core middleware com-ponents, and presents an analysis of the functionality and performance of the first wide-area deployment of Archer running a representative com-puter architecture simulation workload.