USENIX ;login:, v 38, n 3, June 2013.
Garth A. Gibson, Gary Grider*, Andree Jacobson**, Wyatt Lloyd^
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
*Los Alamos National Laboratory
**New Mexico Consortium
^Princeton University
If you have ever aspired to create a software system that can harness a thousand computers and perform some impressive feat, you know the dismal prospects of finding such a cluster ready and waiting for you to make magic with it. Today, however, if you are a systems researcher and your promised feat is impressive enough, there is such a resource available online: PRObE. This article is an introduction to and call for proposals for use of the PRObE facilities.
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