WOW
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WOW stands for Wide-area Overlay Networks of Virtual Workstations. This project investigates systems that integrate virtual machines (VMs) and self-organizing virtual networks (we use IPOP). WOWs are similar to NOWs (Networks of Workstations) but can be instatiated across wide-area networks. In Grid computing, WOWs are used for high throughput computing workloads (bag of tasks, parameter sweeps), and loosely-coupled parallel applications.
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Condor-based Grid Appliance
The Grid Appliance is a self-configuring VM that can be used to easily create Condor pools using the WOW approach. The appliance runs on various VMs, including the freely available VMware Player and VMware Server.
Browse to the Grid appliance site for downloads, documentation, and technical publications.
Hadoop appliance
Another example of a WOW is a Grid Appliance which has been enhanced to incorporate the Hadoop file system and map/reduce framework. Browse to the Grid appliance site for Hadoop appliance downloads and tutorials.
Code
At the core of WOW is the IPOP virtual network; additional configuration scripts and packaging of software in virtual machine images enable the creation of WOWs. The IPOP code is open-source and available to download; please visit the IPOP project page for instructions on how to access the repository.
The Team
Faculty Members
Graduate Students
Rhett Aultman
Arijit Ganguly
Pierre St Juste
David Wolinsky
Jiangyan Xu
