Nimbus

Papers and Tech Reports

• Contextualization: Providing One-Click Virtual Clusters, Keahey, K., T. Freeman. eScience 2008, Indianapolis, IN. December 2008. (pdf)
• Flying Low: Simple Leases with Workspace Pilot, Freeman, T., K. Keahey. Euro-Par 2008, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. August 2008. (pdf)
• Combining Batch Execution and Leasing Using Virtual Machines, Sotomayor, B., K. Keahey, I. Foster. HPDC 2008, Boston, MA. June 2008 (pdf)

• Enabling Cost-Effective Resource Leases with Virtual Machines, Sotomayor, B., K. Keahey, I. Foster, T. Freeman. HPDC 2007 Hot Topics session, Monterey Bay, CA. June 2007 (pdf)
• Virtual Workspaces for Scientific Applications, Keahey, K., T. Freeman, J. Lauret, D. Olson. SciDAC 2007 Conference, Boston, MA. June 2007 (pdf)
• A Scalable Approach To Deploying And Managing Appliances, Bradshaw, R., N. Desai, T. Freeman, K. Keahey. TeraGrid 2007, Madison, WI. June 2007 (pdf)

• Division of Labor: Tools for Growth and Scalability of Grids, Freeman, T., K. Keahey, I. Foster, A. Rana, B. Sotomayor, F. Wuerthwein. ICSOC 2006, Chicago, IL. December 2006 (pdf)
• Overhead Matters: A Model for Virtual Resource Management, Sotomayor, B., K. Keahey, I. Foster. VTDC 2006, Tampa, FL. November 2006 (pdf)
• Virtual Clusters for Grid Communities, Foster, I., T. Freeman, K. Keahey, D. Scheftner, B. Sotomayor, X. Zhang. CCGRID 2006, Singapore. May 2006 (pdf)
• An Edge Services Framework (ESF) for EGEE, LCG, and OSG, Rana, A., F. Wuerthwein, K. Keahey, T. Freeman, et. al. Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics 2006 (CHEP), T.I.F.R. Mumbai, India. February 2006 (pdf)

• Virtual Workspaces: Achieving Quality of Service and Quality of Life in the Grid, Keahey, K., I. Foster, T. Freeman, and X. Zhang. Scientific Programming Journal, vol 13, No. 4, 2005, Special Issue: Dynamic Grids and Worldwide Computing, pp. 265-276 (pdf)
• Virtual Cluster Workspaces for Grid Applications, Zhang, X., K. Keahey, I. Foster, and T. Freeman. TR-ANL/MCS-P1246-0405. April 2005 (pdf)
• Virtual Workspaces in the Grid, Keahey, K., I. Foster, T. Freeman, X. Zhang, D. Galron. Europar 2005, Lisbon, Portugal. September, 2005 (pdf)

• From Sandbox to Playground: Dynamic Virtual Environments in the Grid, Keahey, K., K. Doering, and I. Foster. 5th International Workshop in Grid Computing (Grid 2004), Pittsburgh, PA. November 2004 (pdf)

• Dynamic Creation and Management of Runtime Environments in the Grid, Keahey, K., M. Ripeanu, and K. Doering. Workshop on Designing and Building Web Services (GGF 9), Chicago, IL. October, 2003 (pdf)

Talks

• Contextualization: Providing One-Click Virtual Clusters, Kate Keahey. eScience 2008, Indianapolis, IN. December 2008 (pdf)
• Nimbus or an Open Source Cloud Platform or the Best Open Source EC2 No Money Can Buy, Kate Keahey, Tim Freeman. Supercomputing 2008, Austin, TX. November 2008 (ppt) (pdf)
• Science Clouds: Early Experiences in Cloud Computing for Scientific Applications, Kate Keahey, Renato Figueiredo, Jose Fortes, Tim Freeman, Mauricio Tsugawa. Cloud Computing and its Applications, Chicago, IL. August 2008 (ppt) (pdf)
• Flying Low: Simple Leases with the Workspace Pilot, Tim Freeman. Euro-Par 2008, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. August 2008 (pdf)
• Virtualization, Cloud Computing, and TeraGrid, Kate Keahey, Marlon Pierce. TeraGrid '08, Las Vegas, NV. June 2008 (ppt)
• Cloud Computing and Virtualization with Globus (Tutorial), Kate Keahey, Tim Freeman. Open Source Grid Cluster, Oakland, CA, May 2008 (ppt)
• First Steps in the Clouds, Kate Keahey. OGF22, Cambridge, MA, Feb 2008 (ppt)

• Globus Virtual Workspaces - An Update, Kate Keahey. Supercomputing 2007, Reno, NV. November 2007 (ppt)
• Globus Virtual Workspaces, Kate Keahey. HEPiX Fall 2007, St. Louis, MO. November 2007 (ppt)
• Enabling Cost-Effective Resource Leases with Virtual Machines, Kate Keahey. HPDC 2007 Hot Topics session, Monterey Bay, CA. June 2007 (ppt)
• Virtual Workspaces for Scientific Applications, Kate Keahey. SciDAC 2007 Conference, Boston, MA. June 2007 (pdf)
• A Scalable Approach To Deploying And Managing Appliances, Kate Keahey. TeraGrid 2007, Madison, WI. June 2007 (ppt)
• Virtual Workspaces: State of the Art and Current Directions, Borja Sotomayor. DSL Workshop, Chicago, IL. May, 2007 (pdf)
• Virtual Machines for Grid Computing, Borja Sotomayor. Midwest Grid Workshop 2007, Chicago, IL. May, 2007 (pdf)
• Virtual Appliances for Scientific Applications, Kate Keahey. Virtual Appliances Leadership Summit 2007 (VALS), Dallas, TX. April, 2007 (ppt)

• Division of Labor: Tools for Growing and Scaling Grids, Kate Keahey. ICSOC 06, Chicago, IL. December 2006 (ppt)
• Virtual Workspace Appliances, Tim Freeman and Kate Keahey. SC06 Booth Presentation, Tampa, FL. November 2006 (pdf)
• On-Demand Virtual Workspaces: Quality of Life in the Grid, Kate Keahey. 5th Meeting of Spanish Initiative in Grid Middleware, Granada, Spain. November 2006 (ppt)
• Resource Management for Virtual Clusters, Borja Sotomayor. DSL Workshop, Chicago, IL. June 2006 (pdf)
• Virtual Clusters for Grid Communities, Tim Freeman. CCGrid 06, Singapore. May 2006 (pdf)

• Living on the Edge: OSG Edge Services Framework, Kate Keahey and Abhishek Rana. SCO5 Booth Presentation, Seattle, WA. November 2005 (ppt)
• Making your workspace secure: establishing trust with VMs in the Grid, Wei Lu. SC05 Poster, Seattle, WA. November 2005 (ppt)
• Virtualization: Towards More Flexible and Efficient Grids, Kate Keahey. PPAM 2005, Poznan, Poland. September 2005 (ppt)
• Virtual Workspaces in the Grid, Kate Keahey. EuroPar 2005, Lisbon, Portugal. September 2005 (ppt)
• Workspaces for CE Management, Kate Keahey. EGEE All Hands Meeting, Brno, Czech Republic. June 2005 (ppt)
• Working Spaces: Virtual Machines in the Grid, Kate Keahey and Tim Freeman. GlobusWorld 2005, Boston, MA February 2005 (ppt)

• Quality of Life in the Grids: VMs meet Bioinformatics Applications, Kate Keahey. SC04 Poster, Pittsburgh, PA. November 2004 (ppt)
• From Sandbox to Playground: Dynamic Virtual Environments in the Grid, Kate Keahey. Grid 2004, Pittsburgh, PA. November 2004 (ppt)
• From Sandbox to Playground: Virtual Environments and Quality of Service in the Grids, Kate Keahey. IEEE Fox Valley Subsection, Chicago, IL. September 2004 (ppt)
• Virtual Playground: From Quality of Service to Quality of Life in the Grids, Kate Keahey. PSNC Seminar, Poznan, Poland. April 2004 (ppt)