Welcome to Tycoon
Tycoon is a market-based system for managing compute resources in distributed clusters like PlanetLab, the Grid, or a Utility Data Center (UDC). The basic idea is that users have a limited supply of credits. Consuming users pay providing users to use computer resource. Users who provide resources can, in turn, spend their earnings to use resources later.
This automated economic mechanisms allocates resources with more economic efficiency than standard proportional share and priority systems, and orders of magnitude more quickly than going through manual allocation.
Tycoon is currently a prototype implemented using Linux and Xen; a networked economy of hosts running the prototype; and a set of algorithms for doing economic resource allocation. As a result, this website has a diverse set of functionality:
- Download and Install
- Download and install a client.
- Download and install a resource providing host.
- Xen installation tips.
- Download Lightweight client that may be used on non-Fedora platforms.
- Use Tycoon
- Setup and register an account.
- Get started running your program.
- Tips on running applications on Tycoon.
- Tycoon User's Manual
- Tycoon Grid Integration User's Manual (pdf) (tickets)
- Administer Tycoon
- Tycoon Administrator's Manual
- Administer the HP Labs Tycoon cluster.
- Monitor
- All Tycoon web-based monitors are currently down for upgrade.
- Status of the networked economy.
- Job Status, Price History, and WorldCommunityGrid Status of the Tycoon Grid.
- Map of current resource providers and Grid clients.
- Contribute
- This wiki uses Trac. The features below require registering an account.
- Edit this wiki to add a tip or some useful data.
- Submit a ticket for a feature request or a bug.
- Develop the Tycoon source code. Tycoon is licensed under the GPL and all contributions are welcome.
- Add FeatureRequests for the Web-based front-end.
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