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Managing Distributed Applications Using Gush

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Deploying and controlling experiments running on a distributed set of resources is a challenging task. Software developers often spend a significant amount of time dealing with the complexities associated with resource configuration and management in these environments. Experiment control systems are designed to automate the process, and to ultimately help developers cope with the common problems that arise during the design, implementation, and evaluation of distributed systems. However, many of the existing control systems were designed with specific computing environments in mind, and thus do not provide support for heterogeneous resources in different testbeds. In this paper, we explore the functionality of Gush, an experiment control system, and discuss how it supports execution on three of the four GENI control frameworks.

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  1. Williams College, Williamstown, MA, USA

    Jeannie Albrecht & Danny Yuxing Huang

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  1. Institute for Telecommunications Systems, Technische Universität Berlin, Franklinstr. 28/29, 10587, Berlin, Germany

    Thomas Magedanz

  2. Eurescom GmbH, Wieblinger Weg 19/4, 69123, Heidelberg, Germany

    Anastasius Gavras

  3. Department of Communication Engineering, Hanoi University of Technology, C9-412, Hanoi, Vietnam

    Nguyen Huu Thanh

  4. Department of Computer Science, Duke University, NC 27708-0129, Durham, United States

    Jeffry S. Chase

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Albrecht, J., Huang, D.Y. (2011). Managing Distributed Applications Using Gush. In: Magedanz, T., Gavras, A., Thanh, N.H., Chase, J.S. (eds) Testbeds and Research Infrastructures. Development of Networks and Communities. TridentCom 2010. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 46. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17851-1_31

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