Virtual Clusters for Grid Communities
CCGRID '06 Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
VTDC '06 Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Virtualization Technology in Distributed Computing
nanoHUB.org: Advancing Education and Research in Nanotechnology
Computing in Science and Engineering
Autonomic Live Adaptation of Virtual Computational Environments in a Multi-Domain Infrastructure
ICAC '06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing
The Eucalyptus Open-Source Cloud-Computing System
CCGRID '09 Proceedings of the 2009 9th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
DMTCP: Transparent checkpointing for cluster computations and the desktop
IPDPS '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel&Distributed Processing
Cost-benefit analysis of Cloud Computing versus desktop grids
IPDPS '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel&Distributed Processing
IP over P2P: enabling self-configuring virtual IP networks for grid computing
IPDPS'06 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Parallel and distributed processing
VIOLIN: virtual internetworking on overlay infrastructure
ISPA'04 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications
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A campus grid is a critical component of research cyberinfrastructure. A grid facilitates resource sharing, improving collaboration and increasing the capability to address large scale scientific and engineering problems. Resources comprising a grid include research clusters, centrally managed clusters, opportunistic use of desktop computers, campus clouds, and commercial clouds. Advances in virtual machine technology and hypervisor availability has made the use of virtual machines an attractive tool for building campus grids. Pools of Virtual Boxes (POVB) is an open-source, dedicated virtual machine environment for rapidly deploying a campus grid. POVB is targeted at institutions where financial and administrative constraints prevent large scale changes in computational infrastructure. The POVB distribution includes: services that manage the virtual machine hypervisor, services that communicate select host information with the Linux guest for debugging and resource utilization policies, a bootstrapping framework for building virtual images, and a third-party package deployment framework that integrates with Condor to advertise available software services. We report on the design and implementation of POVB and examine a deployment of several hundred POVB instances, which has been operational for over a year. POVB has been released under the GNU Public License Version 3, and is available at http://poolsofvirtualb.sourceforge.net.