This page will contain informations about the Dynamical Domains project.
Overview
"Dynamical Domains" is a project in which an application (called Manager) is able to interact with a batch system and to run a set of different kind of domUs according to given rules on top of a pool of dom0. This is useful when for example you have very different computational tasks which requires completely different operating systems. Instead of compiling compatibility libraries, solve dependencies etc, you run a dedicated virtual machine for each task. The manager have to pay attention to and manage various things:
- The dom0s status, capabilities, networking and type (It has a disk ? It is via NFS ? etc).
- The list of domU types and their characteristics.
- Their requirements (How much RAM and processors they need ? What is the way of booting: local disk, file, via iSCSI, via NFS, etc ?).
- The status of one or more batch system and its jobs.
- The migration of domUs if necessary and possible.
- The high availability of services running on the domUs.
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Publications
IEEE NSS/MIC '08
19 - 25 October 2008 Dresden, Germany
Presented Poster: pdf (150dpi | 300dpi), png (150dpi | 300dpi)
Article: A proposal to dynamically manage virtual environments in heterogeneous batch systems - IEEE Xplore
CSFI '08
27 - 30 May 2008 Rimini, Italy
Presented Poster: pdf (300dpi), png (300dpi)
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Talks
INFN CCR workshop
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Documentation
Laurea Degree in Computer Science Thesis,
Study of a prototype for the dynamical management of virtual machines,
Candidate: Riccardo M. Cefalà
Supervisors: Leonello Servoli, Mirko Mariotti
Mathematics and Computer Science Department - University of Perugia - 2006/07
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Wiki
The wiki will contain technical aspects of the project as well as configuration, installation and development. At this moment the wiki is not yet fully public.
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People
Mirko Mariotti - website
Leonello Servoli - website
Riccardo M. Cefalà - website
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Links
Physics Department - Universisty of Perugia
INFN Grid Perugia - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, sede di Perugia
Xen - Home of the Xen Hypervisor
Spread Toolkit - The Spread Toolkit Web Site
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