7th NRENs and Grids Workshop
Aim of the workshop
The seventh NRENs and Grids workshop will focus on authentication and authorisation practices as well as on virtualisation.
The programme of the first half day of the workshop will focus on the authorisation developments in the Grid area, highlighting commonalities and differences in the authorisation process as performed by the identity federations.
During this first session the way to leverage with national identity schemas will also be addressed.
The second half day of the NRENs and Grids workshop will focus on virtualisation.
System virtualisation breaks new ground in isolation, consolidation, and migration of resources. In turn, Grids offer new paradigms for dissemination and aggregation of infrastructure operations, often on a large scale. The 7th NRENs and Grids Workshop will focus on the border-land of 'system virtualisation' and 'grid computing'.
Ongoing progress in grid technologies have enabled organisations to share and manage their resources beyond the earlier expectations of IT and user groups. The growth and evolution of virtualisation has enabled organisations to consolidate resources, especially in data center domains producing in some cases quite noticeable cost savings. Leading grid users are investigating and deploying server virtualisation into their grid infrastructure to enable rapid provisioning and configuration of their grid environment using virtual machines to quickly reconfigure the infrastructure based on workload demand.
It seems that system virtualisation and grids are complementary and highly synergistic research areas. Based on the latest improvements in processing, networking, information management and middleware, the distinct roles and relationships between grids and virtualisation are becoming increasingly blurred.
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