Speaker
Mr
Ian Gable
(University of Victoria)
Description
Deployment of HEP application in heterogeneous grid environments can be challenging
because many of the applications are dependent on specific OS versions and have a
large number of complex software dependencies. Virtual machine monitors such as Xen
could ease the deployment burden by allowing applications to be packaged complete
with their execution environments. Our previous work has shown HEP applications
running within Xen to suffer little or no performance penalty as a result of
virtualization. However, a practical strategy is required for remotely deploying,
booting, and controlling virtual machines on a remote cluster. One tool that promises
to overcome the deployment hurdles using standard grid technology is the Globus
Virtual Workspaces project. We investigate strategies for the deployment of Xen
virtual machines using Globus Virtual Workspace middleware that simplify the
deployment of HEP applications. Further, we study the feasibility of deploying
user-constructed virtual machines for the purpose of executing custom physics analyses.
Primary authors
Mr
Andre Charbonneau
(National Research Council of Canada)
Ms
Angela Norton
(University of Victoria)
Dr
Ashok Agarwal
(University of Victoria)
Mr
Daniel Vanderster
(University of Victoria)
Mr
David Grundy
(University of Victoria)
Mr
Duncan Penfold-Brown
(University of Victoria)
Mr
Ian Gable
(University of Victoria)
Dr
Randall Sobie
(University of Victoria)
Dr
Rolf Seuster
(University of Victoria)
Mr
Ron Desmarais
(University of Victoria)
Mr
Ryan Enge
(University of Victoria)
Mr
Tristan Sullivan
(University of Victoria)
