Millennium, a Campuswide Cluster-of-Clusters

Matt Welsh

The UC Berkeley Millennium project aims to build a campus-wide hierarchichal "intercluster" to support large-scale scientific computation and visualization. A key aspect of this system is the notion of a computational economy, in which market-based algorithms are used to enable users (and system services) to buy, sell, and trade resources to optimize for user satisfaction. Taking its initial cues (and lessons) from the NOW project, the Millennium promises to answer the question: "What happens when you drop six million bucks of Intel equipment on a group of Berkeley grad students?"

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