A Novel Centralized Managed Computing System for Heterogeneous OSes

Abstract

Heterogeneous Oses supporting is essential for computing system in e-learning room, even in education informatization. The management overhead for legacy personal computers to fulfill the task is too high to afford. This paper proposes a novel computing system: TransCom system, which deploys centralized management with distributed, diskless clients, yet centralized repositories of all software and data. It supports heterogeneous Oses, reduces the management complexity and results in low TCO. Our initial deployment and experiment results in education environment demonstrate that our approach is feasible and efficient.