AIS: Adaptable Installation System
Utility computing, clusters-on-demand, complex compute farms, and other dynamic large scale, multi-configuration environments have created
a need for automated, fast, and resource efficient system installation and reinstallation. The current main approaches: image-based and meta-data based OS installs do not fully satisfy this need. Imaging is fast, but not scalable to a large number of system configurations. Meta-data based installs scale well, but are significantly slower than imaging. The Adaptable Installation System, AIS, combines the strengths of the
two approaches and facilitates fast, disk space efficient, manageable and scalable installation for heterogeneous environments.
Latest News
| 05/06/2004 |
An updated version of an AIS report is posted in the "Papers/Documentation" section. |
| 05/01/2004 |
AIS website goes live. |
| 04/20/2004 |
AIS version 0.1 completed |
Papers/Documentation
For a full understading of the system, read the first two papers. The readme document provides hands-on instructions of how to use AIS, while the report provides a top level overview of its operations.
- AIS Readme. (5/1/2004)[pdf]
- "AIS: A Fast, Disk Space Efficient ’Adaptable Installation System ’ Supporting Multitudes of Diverse Software Configurations."
A technical report on AIS. (5/6/2004) [pdf] [doc]
- "AIS - Fast, disk-efficient system installation for heterogeneous environments: How to improve on Imaging and Kickstart?"
An extended abstract of a paper submitted to Usenix LISA 2004
conference. (4/20/2003) [pdf]
Souce Code
Latest version of AIS can be downloaded here.
It is recommended that you read the above papers to get an idea of how AIS can help you best.
CVS repository will be available soon.
Comments
Send any comments, suggestions to AIS developers.
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Experimental Networked Systems Lab
Computer Science Department
George Washington University
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Washington, DC 20052
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