A worldwide flock of Condors: load sharing among workstation clusters
Future Generation Computer Systems - Special issue: resource management in distributed systems
Chord: a scalable peer-to-peer lookup protocol for internet applications
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Kademlia: A Peer-to-Peer Information System Based on the XOR Metric
IPTPS '01 Revised Papers from the First International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems
Pastry: Scalable, Decentralized Object Location, and Routing for Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Systems
Middleware '01 Proceedings of the IFIP/ACM International Conference on Distributed Systems Platforms Heidelberg
A Case For Grid Computing On Virtual Machines
ICDCS '03 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
BOINC: A System for Public-Resource Computing and Storage
GRID '04 Proceedings of the 5th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing
From Sandbox to Playground: Dynamic Virtual Environments in the Grid
GRID '04 Proceedings of the 5th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing
Kernel korner: unionfs: bringing filesystems together
Linux Journal
Deploying virtual machines as sandboxes for the grid
WORLDS'05 Proceedings of the 2nd conference on Real, Large Distributed Systems - Volume 2
Towards virtual networks for virtual machine grid computing
VM'04 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Virtual Machine Research And Technology Symposium - Volume 3
Dynamo: amazon's highly available key-value store
Proceedings of twenty-first ACM SIGOPS symposium on Operating systems principles
VTDC '06 Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Virtualization Technology in Distributed Computing
Contextualization: Providing One-Click Virtual Clusters
ESCIENCE '08 Proceedings of the 2008 Fourth IEEE International Conference on eScience
The Eucalyptus Open-Source Cloud-Computing System
CCGRID '09 Proceedings of the 2009 9th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
BonjourGrid: Orchestration of multi-instances of grid middlewares on institutional Desktop Grids
IPDPS '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel&Distributed Processing
On the design of scalable, self-configuring virtual networks
Proceedings of the Conference on High Performance Computing Networking, Storage and Analysis
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
A virtual network (ViNe) architecture for grid computing
IPDPS'06 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Parallel and distributed processing
Experiences with self-organizing, decentralized grids using the grid appliance
Proceedings of the 20th international symposium on High performance distributed computing
VIOLIN: virtual internetworking on overlay infrastructure
ISPA'04 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications
Private virtual cluster: infrastructure and protocol for instant grids
Euro-Par'06 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Parallel Processing
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"Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime"--Lau Tzu.Large-scale grid computing projects such as TeraGrid and Open Science Grid provide researchers vast amounts of compute resources but with requirements that could limit access, delay results due to potentially long job queues, and involve environments and policies that might affect a user's work flow. In many scenarios and in particular with the advent of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing, individual users and communities can benefit from less restrictive, dynamic systems that include a combination of local resources and on-demand resources provisioned by one or more IaaS provider. These types of scenarios benefit from flexibility in deploying resources, remote access, and environment configuration.In this paper, we address how small groups can dynamically create, join, and manage grid infrastructures with low administrative overhead. Our work distinguishes itself from other projects with similar objectives by enabling a combination of decentralized system organization and user access for job submission in addition to a web 2.0 interfaces for managing grid membership and automate certificate management. These components contribute to the design of the "Grid Appliance," an implementation of a wide area overlay network of virtual workstations (WOW), which has developed over the past six years into a mature system with several deployments and many users. In addition to an architectural description, this paper contains lessons learned during the development and deployment of "Grid Appliance" systems and a case study backed by quantitative analysis that verifies the utility of our approach.