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What is Virtual EZ Grid?

Virtual EZ Grid is an applied research project funded by AAA/Switch and aiming at building desktop grid platforms for medical applications.

 

What are the Virtual EZ-Grid objectives?

Four technical features are targeted by the Virtual EZ-Grid project:

  1. Construct a desktop grid infrastructure with more than 1.000 non dedicated desktop PCs to provide harvested CPU power for scientific research projects.

  2. Implement a reliable platform by using virtual environments to support secure computing and remote check-pointing. By using Wake-On-LAN technology, this project will also provide a better control over environmental issues and energy consumption by running only the necessary PCs and shutting down unused PCs at night and during holidays. The proposed platform should give a non-intrusive experience to the PC users.

  3. Guarantee the security and privacy of both the PC user and the virtual CPU environment by using the virtual isolation layer property, certificate and proper authentication of grid user.

  4. Provide a resource-credit system prototype that can be used in the future to evaluate the potential resource-credit schemes that could be established and the relevant criteria that should be used to determine a “fair” incentive taking into account the point of views of providers and consumers of virtual PC resources.

  5. Evaluate objectives 1 through 4 in a real world setting with two medical applications.

 

Who are the partners?