VMGrid: A Virtual Machine supported grid middleware

Author

Wu, Song ; Zhu, Wei ; Jiang, Wenbin ; Jin, Hai

Author_Institution

Cluster & Grid Comput. Lab., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan

fYear

2008

fDate

26-28 Aug. 2008

Firstpage

676

Lastpage

679

Abstract

Many grid middleware such as Globus Toolkit and GPE have started to support virtual machines. They implement the remote control of virtual machine by grid service and make use of virtual machinespsila function of quick deployment to construct the execution environment of grid application fast. In order to support virtual machine in grid environment, VMGrid (Virtual Machine Grid) is presented. All services in VMGrid are implemented based on secure shell host protocol (SSH) while Globus Toolkitpsilas Virtual Workspace is on WSRF. This paper gives a clear description of VMGrid. Some comparisons with Globus Toolkitpsilas Virtual Workspace in performance are made in this paper. Performance results show that VMGrid virtual workspace atomic services are more effective than that of Globus.

Keywords

grid computing; middleware; remote procedure calls; virtual machines; Globus Toolkit; VMGrid:; execution environment; grid environment; grid middleware; grid service; quick deployment; remote control; virtual machine grid; Computers; Costs; Grid computing; Middleware; Protocols; Prototypes; Resource virtualization; Virtual machining; Virtual manufacturing; Voice mail;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Granular Computing, 2008. GrC 2008. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hangzhou

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2512-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2513-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GRC.2008.4664746

Filename

4664746