Researchers power up server clusters

摘要

Software being developed by a computer science professor at Duke University could help spur so-called utility computing technology that promises to offer users self-managing systems that grow and shrink in response to user demand. For about a year and a half, Jeff Chase, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the university in Durham, N.C., has worked on software that lets users share clusters of computers by creating multiple virtual systems out of a single physical pool of servers.