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Selecting a Virtualization System for Grid/P2P Large Scale Emulation

Overview Virtualization tools are becoming popular in the context of Grid Computing because they allow running multiple operating systems on a single host and provide a confined execution environment. Emulators and experimental tools like Microgrid and PlanetLab use multiple virtual nodes on every platedorm nodes. Thus, to build a large scale emulator for Grid/P2P experiments, developers have to select a virtualization tool among the available ones. In this paper, the authors first present a set of metrics and related methodologies for performances and for usability evaluation. The authors use these metrics to compare 4 virtual machine technologies (Vserver, Xen, UML and VMware), in the context of large scale emulation.

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Publisher	University of Paris	File Format	PDF
Date Published	April 2006	Downloads	12
Format	White Papers
Topics	High Performance Computing, Virtualization

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