Using Virtual Linux servers

Author

Norton, Roger L.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Math., Marist Coll., Poughkeepsie, NY, USA

Volume

35

Issue

11

fYear

2002

fDate

11/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

106

Lastpage

107

Abstract

IBM has invested millions of dollars on Linux development and made the open-source operating system available on its entire server line. The company´s recently announced Virtual Linux-On-Demand service will, for the first time, let companies access large-scale computing over the Internet. Instead of physical servers, customers will be able to tap into virtual servers on mainframes running Linux and be billed only for the computing power and resources they use. This will facilitate creation of e-utilities as well as help establish virtual organizations through grid technologies that enable rapid resource deployment. The paper considers how Marist College´s School of Computer Science and Mathematics initiated a joint project with IBM built around using such servers. The college´s IBM S/390 mainframe can run hundreds of Linux systems as virtual servers, all within a single logical partition.

Keywords

IBM computers; Internet; Unix; computer science education; network operating systems; virtual machines; IBM S/390; Internet; Marist College; Virtual Linux servers; Virtual Linux-On-Demand service; computer science education; grid technologies; mainframe; open-source operating system; virtual organizations; virtual servers; Computer science; Educational institutions; Large-scale systems; Linux; Mathematics; Open source software; Operating systems; Physics computing; Web and internet services; Web server;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9162

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MC.2002.1046982

Filename

1046982