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A Case for Grid Computing on Virtual Machines

PublisherUniversity of Florida
Format608.6KB PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5Date added11 Nov 2004
Topics IBM MVS - VM - VSE - ESA, High Performance Computing
Downloads31

This paper advocates a novel approach to grid computing that is based on a combination of "classic" operating system level virtual machines (VMs) and middleware mechanisms to manage VMs in a distributed environment. The abstraction is that of dynamically instantiated and mobile VMs that are a combination of traditional OS processes (the VM monitors) and files (the VM state).

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