ACM president's letter: performance analysis: experimental computer science as its best
Communications of the ACM
Dynamic Virtual Clusters in a Grid Site Manager
HPDC '03 Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
Xen and the art of virtualization
SOSP '03 Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Grid resource management: state of the art and future trends
Grid resource management: state of the art and future trends
The Reincarnation of Virtual Machines
Queue - Virtual Machines
VMPlants: Providing and Managing Virtual Machine Execution Environments for Grid Computing
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Memory resource management in VMware ESX server
OSDI '02 Proceedings of the 5th symposium on Operating systems design and implementationCopyright restrictions prevent ACM from being able to make the PDFs for this conference available for downloading
A price-anticipating resource allocation mechanism for distributed shared clusters
Proceedings of the 6th ACM conference on Electronic commerce
The design principles of PlanetLab
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
Virtual Clusters for Grid Communities
CCGRID '06 Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
A survey of task mapping on production grids
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
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Applications to be executed onmultipurpose Grids frequently have very specific resource requirements (platform, kernel, operating systems, libraries, memory, CPU, etc.) and need to be delegated part of the resource control. Typical Grid sites offer a limited range of resource types, inhibiting the range of applications that can be supported; and Grid node managers are bound to maintain their servers according to users requirements. To address these problems, we introduce Smart-Domains, which combines the high performance virtual machine technology provided by Xen, with automatic deployment of Xen virtual machines using the Smart Frog configuration and deployment framework. SmartDomains automatically deploys distributed, synchronized pools of custom-configured Xen virtual machines and manages them through their lifecycle as a single coherent distributed execution environment. SmartDomains uses a representation of the complete distributed resources specifications, including information about how to sequence their creation and removal. We discuss SmartDomains test cases at CERN for distributed testbeds and Grid execution nodes.