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Deploying LiveWN Grids in the Greek School Network

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A determinant factor for the introduction of grid technologies in production domains of scale can be the design of easy, fast and, from an operational point of view, realizable deployment procedures. Remote system management technologies, typically used to monitor and manage IT environments, are designed to offer remote software installation functionality that exhibits the aforementioned characteristics; however, previous work has shown that even valuable systems can fail to perform in heterogeneous, geographically distributed environments, especially if they are maintained by organizations affiliated to the public sector. The deployment of grid technologies throughout the Greek School Network can be achieved by combining OpenRSM, a novel open source solution capable to support usable, configurable, infrastructure management use cases in heterogeneous environments and LiveWN, a grid scavenging solution that integrates live technologies with gLite grids.

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  1. Computer Engineering and Informatics Department, University of Patras, Rio, Patras, Greece

    Michael N. Kalochristianakis, Vasilis Gkamas & Emmanouel Varvarigos

  2. ETH Zürich, CSCS, Manno, Switzerland

    Fotis Georgatos & Emmanouel Varvarigos

  3. Computer Technology Institute, Rio, Patras, Greece

    Vasilis Gkamas

  4. National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Giannis Kouretis

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Kalochristianakis, M.N., Georgatos, F., Gkamas, V. et al. Deploying LiveWN Grids in the Greek School Network. J Grid Computing 10, 237–248 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10723-012-9203-x

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