Summary: Distributed Application Management Using Plush
Jeannie Albrecht, Christopher Tuttle, Alex C. Snoeren, and Amin Vahdat
University of California, San Diego
{jalbrecht, ctuttle, snoeren, vahdat}@cs.ucsd.edu
Abstract. Although a number of solutions exist for subtasks of application de­
ployment and monitoring in large­scale, distributed environments, few tools pro­
vide a unified framework for distributed application management. Many of the
existing tools address the management needs of a single class of applications or
services that run in a specific environment and are not extensible enough to be
used for other applications. In this paper, we discuss the design and implementa­
tion of Plush, a fully configurable application control infrastructure designed to
meet the general requirements of several different classes of distributed applica­
tions. The paper discusses how users specifically define the flow of control needed
using application building blocks provided by Plush. We also take a closer look
at a few specific distributed applications to gain an understanding of how Plush
provides support for each.
Keywords: application management, peer­to­peer, workflow, grid, PlanetLab
1 Introduction
Installing, configuring, and executing a distributed application on federated computa­
tion infrastructures such as PlanetLab [3, 18] and the Grid [10] is currently a time­

Source: Albrecht, Jeannie - Computer Science Department, Williams College

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences