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Introduction

A virtual workspace is an abstraction of an execution environment that can be made dynamically available to authorized clients by using well-defined protocols. The abstraction captures resource quota assigned to such execution environment on deployment (such as CPU or memory share) as well as software configuration aspects of the environment (such as operating system installation or provided services). The Workspace Service allows a Grid client to dynamically deploy and manage workspaces.

Workspaces can be implemented and deployed in many ways. One potential implementation is to deploy physical boot images, another is to use virtual machines, and yet another, to simply dynamically provide access to already deployed workspaces by creating Unix accounts on the fly.

The current workspace infrastructure focuses on the deployment and management of virtual machines:

To read about future directions, see:

Roadmap

For services to create dynamic system accounts with Globus, see the Dynamic Accounts project. This was referred to as the workspace service in the past but is now Dynamic Accounts (DA).

News

Upcoming:

Virtual Workspaces Tutorial at Open Source Grid Cluster (May 12-16, 2008) Read more

Contact

For questions and software support, please see the contact page for instructions.

License

This software is licensed under the terms of the Apache License v2 and previous versions were licensed under the terms of the Globus Toolkit Public License v3.