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Pan: A High-Level Configuration Language
The computational requirements for the new Large Hadron Collider are enormous: 5-8 PetaBytes of data generated annually with analysis requiring 10 more PetaBytes of disk storage and the equivalent of 200,000 of today's fastest PC processors. This will be a very large and complex computing system, with about two thirds of the computing capacity installed in ``regional computing centres'' across Europe, America, and Asia.
Implemented as a global computational grid, the goal of integrating the large geographically distributed computing fabrics presents challenges in many areas, including: distributed scientific applications; computational grid middleware, automated computer system management; high performance networking; object database management; security; global grid operations.
This paper describes our approach to one of these challenges: the configuration management of a large number of machines, be they nodes in large clusters or desktops in large organizations.
author = {Lionel Cons and Piotr Poznanski},
title = {Pan: A {High-Level} Configuration Language},
booktitle = {16th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 02)},
year = {2002},
address = {Philadelphia, PA},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa-02/pan-high-level-configuration-language},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = nov
}