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Nowadays, cloud computing has become one of the major issues on the progress of computer science. Applying Diskless Remote Booting (DRB) System to cloud computing has potential to reduce energy consumption and enhance Maintainability. Previous research has introduced homogeneous DRB system which consists of compute nodes with the same hardware and software configuration. However, in the homogeneous DRB system, adding a new node requires the same hardware and software configuration. In this paper, we propose a heterogeneous DRB system that allows compute nodes to have various hardware and software configurations. Moreover, the proposed scheme is equipped with hypervisor to each compute node, so that every compute node provides a virtual environment for its end-users. The experiment results show our approach can run a number of compute nodes with various hardware and software configurations concurrently. Furthermore, the proposed scheme has outstanding benefits to energy saving with negligible performance loss.
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Wu, JN., Ko, YH., Huang, KM., Huang, MK. (2013). Heterogeneous Diskless Remote Booting System on Cloud Operating System. In: Park, J.J.(.H., Arabnia, H.R., Kim, C., Shi, W., Gil, JM. (eds) Grid and Pervasive Computing. GPC 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7861. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38027-3_12
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