Distributed virtual machines can help to build scalable, manageable, and efficient grid
infrastructures. The work proposed in this paper focuses on employing virtual machines for …

Virtual machines provide flexible, powerful execution environments for Grid computing,
offering isolation and security mechanisms complementary to operating systems …

Virtual machines offer various advantages such as easy configuration, management,
development and deployment of computing resources for cyberinfrastructures. Recent …

Grid users always expect to meet some challenges to employ Grid resources, such as
customized computing environment and QoS support. In this paper, we propose a new …

Virtualization can enhance the functionality and ease the management of current and future
Grids by enabling ondemand creation of services and virtual clusters with customized …

We advocate 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 …

Grid-Ireland, the national computational grid for Ireland, has a centrally managed core
infrastructure: the installation and configuration of grid gateways at constituent sites are …

Cluster and grid computing are becoming very popular, particularly for scientific and
engineering applications. Higher bandwidth of computer networks has further boosted …

Virtual machines are a promising technology to overcome some of the problems found in
current grid infrastructures, like heterogeneity, performance partitioning or application …

Contemporary production grids do not usually offer the flexibility users are looking for. While
different user communities have often contradictory requirements on the operating system …