BigGrid virtualisatie/charter

BiG Grid Virtualization of Worker Nodes proposal

Objectives

• Phase 1: Provide a design and Proof-of-Concept for virtualized worker nodes that fulfil requirements of different user communities (Q2 and Q3 2009). Take into account the different efforts already under way in this respect.
• Phase 2: focus on attainable first implementation in Q4 of 2009

Resources (working group members)

• Sander Klous (NIKHEF, chair)
• Pieter van Beek, Ron Trompert (SARA),
• Marc van Driel (NBIC)
• Ronald Starink (NIKHEF)

Other users and communities must be part of this effort but not necessarily part of the working group

‘Opdrachtgevers’

• BiG Grid Executive team

Boundary conditions

• System must function on the type of BiG Grid resources available now

Planning

• start: March 1, 2009
• end Phase 1: June 1, 2009
• end Phase 2: December 31,2009

Activities

• Phase 1:
  • Attain requirements form different user communities and use cases.
  • Take into account different efforts on worker node virtualisation in Europe and check their applicability with repect to the above use cases.
  • Write up of first design
• Phase 2:
  • Implementation of Proof-of-Concept on a dedicated resource at NIKHEF, SARA or Life Science Grid.
  • Build customized virtual machine Images for one or two selected application domains.

Deliverable

• Phase 1: design for a Proof-of-Concept
• Phase 2: Implementation of Proof-of-Concept