Abstract: In 2003, the German science community and the Government established the German e-Science Initiative. After two years of preparation, the D-Grid Initiative started in September 2005. Since then, 8 projects started to build a grid middleware software stack connecting distributed resources currently i...

Abstract: In the presentation titled 'Introduction to Virtualization' Matthias Pfützner from Sun Microsystems will present an overview of virtualization technologies ranging from hardware virtualization through OS virtualization up to desktop virtualization, including also some remarks with respect to storag...

Abstract: After a quick overview on new enhancements in Sun Grid Engine 6.1 (Resource Quotas, Dtrace based bottleneck monitor), capabilities of it's OGF DRMAA impelementation will be presented on the basis of use cases from practice.

Abstract: dCache is a large mature product for vitalizing storage clusters into a single name space. dCache provides a multiple data access protocols, including SRM 1/2, GridFTP, dcap and xrootd, multiple methods of authentication and can be scaled from small to large sites. dCache is currently preparing for ...

Abstract: An overview of different use cases for virtualization in the Grid context will be given. The talk will cover different aspects like consolidation, testing and deployment of grid tools, virtualization on the computing nodes, and show some management tools.