Virtual Clusters as a New Service of MetaCentrum, the Czech NGI

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Authors	RUDA Miroslav ŠUSTR Zdeněk SITERA Jiří ANTOŠ David HEJTMÁNEK Lukáš HOLUB Petr
Year of publication	2010
Type	Article in Proceedings
Conference	Cracow Grid Workshop '09
MU Faculty or unit	Institute of Computer Science
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Field	Computer hardware and software
Keywords	MetaCentrum; national grid initiative; network virtualisation
Description	MetaCentrum, the Czech national grid initiative, has introduced a new public service ``virtual cluster'' which turns the virtualized infrastructure into end user service. Virtual cluster service provides an illusion of totally dedicated clusters running on a shared infrastructure under complete user control, including administrator access and user specified application environment. Virtual machines and clusters are handled in a way similar to ordinary computation jobs, planned for batch or interactive processing.
Related projects:	Highly Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems