Nova: An Approach to On-Demand Virtual Execution Environments for Grids

This paper attempts to reduce the overheads of dynamically creating and destroying the virtual environments for secure job execution. It broaches a grid architecture which we call Nova, consisting of extremely minuscule, pre-created virtual machines whose configurations could be altered with respect to the application executed within it. The benefits of the architecture are supported by experimental claims.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: CCGRID
• Authors: Srikanth Sundarrajan, Hariprasad Nellitheertha, Subhabrata Bhattacharya, Neel Arurkar
• Keywords: CCGRID 2006, Cluster Computing, Pre-created Virtual Machines, Secure Job Execution, Virtual Environments