RoTFHML08europar

M. Rodriguez, D. Tapiador, J. Fontan, E. Huedo, R.S. Montero, I.M. Llorente. Dynamic Provisioning of Virtual Clusters for Grid Computing. In 3rd Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cluster and Grid Computing (VHPC 2008), 14th Intl. Conf. Parallel Processing (Euro-Par 2008), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 5415, Pages 23-32, 2009.

Abstract

Virtual machines can greatly simplify grid computing by providing an isolated, well-known environment, while increasing security. Also, they can be used as the base technology to dynamically modify the computing elements of a grid, so providing an adaptive environment. In this paper we present a Grid architecture that allows to dynamically adapt the underlying hardware infrastructure to changing Virtual Organization (VO) demands. The backend of the system is able to provide on-demand virtual worker nodes to existing clusters and integrate them in any Globus-based Grid. In this way, we establish a basis to deploy self-adaptive Grids, which can support different VOs in shared physical infrastructures and dynamically adapt its software configuration. Experimental results on a prototyped testbed show less than a 10% overall performance loss including the hypervisor overhead

Keywords

[ Grid ] [ Cloud ] [ Biogridnet ] [ Tin2006-02806 ] [ Reservoir ]

Contact

Javier Fontan
Eduardo Huedo
Ruben S. Montero
Ignacio M. Llorente

BibTex Reference

@InProceedings{RoTFHML08europar,
   Author = {Rodriguez, M. and Tapiador, D. and Fontan, J. and Huedo, E. and Montero, R.S. and Llorente, I.M.},
   Title = {Dynamic Provisioning of Virtual Clusters for Grid Computing},
   BookTitle = {3rd Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cluster and Grid Computing (VHPC 2008), 14th Intl. Conf. Parallel Processing (Euro-Par 2008)},
   Volume = {5415},
   Pages = {23--32},
   Series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
   Publisher = {Springer},
   Year = {2009}
}