Instant-Grid 0.5 review

Instant-Grid is a live-CD based on Knoppix bundled with a pre-configured grid environment based on the Globus Toolkit. One PC star

License: Freely Distributable File size: 0K Developer: The Instant-Grid Team

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Instant-Grid is a live-CD based on Knoppix bundled with a pre-configured grid environment based on the Globus Toolkit.

One PC started from this CD becomes the Instant-Grid frontend. It also functions as a PXE boot-server, allowing other PCs in the same local network to boot the Instant-Grid environment.

Together with the frontend, these PCs automatically form a working test grid. Like with the original Knoppix, the existing configuration of the participating PC is not touched (except maybe for enabling the PXE boot-option), and remains instantly available by a simple reboot.

What's New in This Release:
The live CD environment is now Knoppix 5, and Gridsphere and the Grid Portlets were updated.
A new addition is the text editor Gobby, a nice example of collaborative tools (not only) for Grids.
Furthermore, a new Portlet was added, which allows the Instant-Grid hardware resources to be examined directly from Gridsphere.