SUCSI: A Light-Weight Desktop Grid System Using Virtualization for Application Sandboxing

Author

Wang, Dongping ; Gong, Bin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., ShanDong Univ., Jinan, China

Volume

1

fYear

2011

fDate

14-15 May 2011

Firstpage

352

Lastpage

356

Abstract

Desktop Grid has shown great success in volunteer computing, delivering huge amount computing power and storage capacity to dozens of research projects. However, small organizations benefit little from this technology. Existing Desktop Grid systems are most heavy-weight and not easy-to-use. Moreover, legacy applications with complex runtime environment are not well supported. To facilitate the cooperation within small institutions and overcome these difficulties, we propose a new Desktop Grid system, Shandong University Cycle Stealing Infrastructure (SUCSI). SUCSI is light-weight and can be deployed without additional server computer. Virtualization is used for application sand boxing in SUCSI, so legacy applications are not trouble any more. This paper will give details on the architecture and some other issues of SUCSI.

Keywords

grid computing; storage management; virtualisation; SUCSI; Shandong university cycle stealing infrastructure; application sandboxing virtualization; legacy applications; light-weight desktop grid system; storage capacity; volunteer computing; Buildings; Computer architecture; Computers; Operating systems; Processor scheduling; Servers; Virtual machining; cycle stealing; desktop grid; public computing; virtualization; volunteer computing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Network Computing and Information Security (NCIS), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Guilin

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-347-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NCIS.2011.78

Filename

5948748