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Building Mini-Grid Environments With Virtual Private Networks: A Pragmatic Approach
Overview At Friedrich-Schiller-University, a number of small-to-medium-size compute clusters and some technical simulations are present which could benefit from using several of these clusters simultaneously. To reach this goal, the formation of a "Mini-Grid" is discussed using a Virtual Private Network to couple clusters on the message-passing level. This is a simple and pragmatic approach for those cases where the functionality (and complexity) of full Grid middleware stacks is not strictly necessary. The performance of this approach is evaluated with a Cellular Automata Simulation using MPI. Experiments show that the use of a VPN offers sufficient communication performance for the application example.
| Publisher | Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena | File Format | |
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| Date Published | June 2006 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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