A scientific computing environment for accessing grid computing systems using cloud services

Abstract

This paper shows how virtualization techniques can be introduced into the grid computing infrastructure to provide a transparent and homogeneous scientific computing environment. Today's trends in grid computing propose a shared model where different organizations make use of a heterogeneous grid, frequently a cluster of clusters (CoC) of computing and network resources. This paper shows how a grid computing model can be virtualized, obtaining a simple and homogeneous interface that can be offered to the clients. The proposed system called virtual grid, uses virtualization support and is developed from integration of standard grid and cloud computing technologies.Furthermore, a Scientific Computing Environment (SCE) has been developed to provide uniform access to the virtual grid. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.