Virtual Workspaces

Introduction

The Virtual Workspace Service provides an open source infrastructure for the deployment and management of virtual machines. Among other things, the workspace service will allow you to do the following:

• Create compute clouds (make your own EC2 style service). For examples of existing clouds configured with the workspace service, see the science clouds page.

• Flexibly combine VM deployment with job deployment on a site configured to manage jobs using a batch scheduler (using the workspace "pilot" program).

• Deploy one-click, auto-configuring virtual clusters (see the cloud clusters page). These are portable, require no onboard secrets to be stored, and auto-configure themselves into new network and security contexts.

• Interface to Amazon EC2 resources (see here)

For more information:

• Overview
• Feature list
• Current release
• Roadmap

News

Recent news:

• TeraGrid Cloud demonstration (Jul 11, 2008) Read more
• Virtual Workspace Service TP1.3.3.1 released (Jul 09, 2008) Read more
• cloud-client 009 available (Jul 07, 2008) Read more
• TG08 BoF: Virtualization, Cloud Computing, and TeraGrid (Jun 10, 2008) Read more
• cloud-client 008 available (May 30, 2008) Read more
• Welcome Google Summer of Code students! (May 26, 2008) Read more
• Virtual Workspace Service TP1.3.2 released (May 23, 2008) Read more
• Virtual Workspaces Tutorial at Open Source Grid Cluster (May 12-16, 2008) Read more
• Science Cloud Available at the University of Florida (May 13, 2008) Read more
• ISGTW Feature (Apr 30, 2008) Read more

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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.