Virtual Workspaces in the Grid [chapter]

Katarzyna Keahey, Ian Foster, Timothy Freeman, Xuehai Zhang, Daniel Galron
2005 Lecture Notes in Computer Science  
Despite significant progress in the development of Grid infrastructure, the provisioning of a customized and controllable remote execution environment remains an open issue. This paper introduces the concept of a virtual workspace, a configurable execution environment that can be created and managed as a first-class entity to reflect client requirements. Such workspaces can be dynamically deployed on a variety of resources decoupling the notion of environment and resource. We show how virtual
more » ... rkspaces fit into the Grid architecture, present an example implementation using virtual machines, and discuss our initial experiences using this system in practice and with applications.
doi:10.1007/11549468_49 fatcat:2zi3vtdbv5hkfd3tmnjdwncuay