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We design and implement Virtual Private Grid (VPG), a shell
that can easily and securely utilize a large number of machines
distributed over multiple administrative domains. Today, many
people have an access to a large number of machines across
multiple subnets or geographically distributed places. These
machines are managed by different administrators, and for the
sake of security and administration cost, they impose various
restrictions on their use. Methods to work around these
restrictions are found on a case-by-case basis and require
human intervention. There-fore, it increases the user's cost to
utilize remote machines significantly, and consequently decreases
the utilization of computational resources. VPG works around these
restrictions automatically and can easily utilize a large number
of machines in multiple administrative domains. We run VPG on
approximately 100 nodes (270 CPUs). Experimental results show
that VPG utilizes remote machines more efficiently than other job
submission tools.
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 Additional Information
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Citation:
Kenji Kaneda, Kenjiro Taura, Akinori Yonezawa,
"Virtual Private Grid: A Command Shell for Utilizing Hundreds of Machines Efficiently,"
ccgrid,
p. 212,
2nd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGRID'02),
2002
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