Simplifying Resource Sharing in Voluntary Grid Computing with

the Grid Appliance

David WolinskyRenato Figueiredo

ACIS LabUniversity of Florida

Outline

• Motivation• Technical Overview• Video Demo• Live Demo• Success Stories• Future Work and After Thoughts

If time allows…• Security• IPOP

Motivation

• Easy to deploy task scheduling system

• Ability to quickly use shared resources

• Grid system that interoperates with other software on a single computer

• Migration capable grid nodes

• Out of the box encryption and authentication

Technical Overview

• Grid Virtual Machine– Ability to create single file, completely configured systems– Supports VMware, VirtualBox, KVM, Qemu, and Xen– Less than 10% CPU overhead– Single image supports being server, client, and worker

• Virtual Networking – (IPOP)– Completely distributed system– Allows connections over NATs– Transfer speed 260 Mbit/sec – Latency overhead of less than .25 msec

• Security via IPsec

Video Demo

• Grab floppy disks

• Download appliance

• Start manager, worker, client Appliances

• condor_status in client

• condor_submit

• condor_q

• results woohoo

Live Demo

• I can host manager and client

• Figueiredo hosts another client

• Explain setup

• condor_status

Success Stories

• Australia, Italy, and Portugal – Self deployed pools

• Switzerland and Clemson – Used in Grid Computing Courses

• UF Coastal – Connected to a pool through IpopVpn

• Individuals using it as a tool for running batch jobs

Acknowledgements

Looking Forward

• Management interfaces

• Interfacing with existing Condor pools

• Common / shared storage

• More robust security

Security

IPOP