Abstract: Grids today are characterized by the chasm between business and research requirements. Different implicit expectations and motivations lead to misunderstandings. We will look into some examples like scalability, performance, security and identify opportunities for convergence and cross over uptake o...
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: 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.