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Xen-OSCAR for Cluster Virtualization

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Frontiers of High Performance Computing and Networking – ISPA 2006 Workshops (ISPA 2006)

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New virtualization solutions such as Xen allow users to execute hundreds of virtual machines on a single physical machine. The interest of these solutions have been proven for system isolation and security features, especially for Internet Service Providers (ISPs), as well as for high performance computing.

A natural question is to know if it is possible to use all these virtual machines at the same time, creating a virtual cluster. This might be an interesting solution for the development and the experimentation of cluster applications.

This document presents an extension of OSCAR for the deployment and the management of Xen virtual machines. We also analyze in this paper the interest of virtualization for the development, the testing and the experimentation of applications for clusters, in particular with the use of a fully virtualized cluster.

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  1. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA

    Geoffroy Vallée & Stephen L. Scott

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  1. Department of Computing, School of Informatics, University of Bradford, BD7 1DP, Bradford, U.K.

    Geyong Min

  2. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’ Informazione - Second, University of Naples - Italy, Real Casa dell’Annunziata - via Roma, 29 81031, Aversa (CE), Italy

    Beniamino Di Martino

  3. Department of Computer Science, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Canada

    Laurence T. Yang

  4. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 200030, Shanghai, China

    Minyi Guo

  5. Department of Computer Science, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany

    Gudula Rünger

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Vallée, G., Scott, S.L. (2006). Xen-OSCAR for Cluster Virtualization. In: Min, G., Di Martino, B., Yang, L.T., Guo, M., Rünger, G. (eds) Frontiers of High Performance Computing and Networking – ISPA 2006 Workshops. ISPA 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4331. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11942634_50

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