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The Workspace Marketplace
The workspace marketplace is like the virtual machine marketplaces that are
becoming popular but is specifically for scientific applications and other
VMs that are useful for grid computing.
This is a place to find VMs and we also host many of them directly on this
webserver. Each is accompanied by a populated workspace metadata file
for quick deployment on resources running the Workspace Service.
Table of Contents
Workspaces
Hello Cloud
| Image name: |
hello-cloud
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| Authored by: |
Tim Freeman - tfreeman@mcs.anl.gov
(workspace team)
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| Created on: |
FEB 25 2008
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| Description: |
This is a relatively small Debian 3.1 image. It runs
a DHCP client and SSHd server by default.
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| Prerequisites: |
- Xen 2+
- Default kernel suffices (networking, ext3)
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| Download: |
hello-cloud.img.tar.gz
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| Metadata: |
hello-cloud.xml
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Globus 002
| Image name: |
globus-002
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| Authored by: |
Tim Freeman - tfreeman@mcs.anl.gov
(workspace team)
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| Created on: |
JUN 06 2008
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| Description: |
This is a ~3GB gentoo VM with all you need to run
Globus experiments. There are READMEs in /root/.
/etc/grid-security is left blank for you to populate.
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| Prerequisites: |
- Xen 2+
- Default kernel suffices (networking, ext3)
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| Download: |
globus-002.tar.bz2 (483M)
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| Metadata: |
globus-002.xml
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Base Cluster 01
| Image name: |
base-cluster-01.gz
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| Authored by: |
Tim Freeman - tfreeman@mcs.anl.gov
(workspace team)
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| Created on: |
JUL 03 2008
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| Description: |
This is an image derived from globus-002 that can be
contextualized into both a GRAM/GridFTP/Torque/NFS head
node and the supporting compute nodes. See the cloud
one-click clusters page
for more information.
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| Prerequisites: |
- Xen 2+
- Kernel with networking, ext3, NFS, iptables
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| Download: |
base-cluster-01.gz (554M)
(this link is broken, will be available shortly)
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| Cluster file: |
base-cluster.xml
(also available in the "samples" directory of the
cloud-client)
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Workspace test VM
| Description: |
This is a very small workspace based on
ttylinux.
The VM is only around 4 MB. Visit the home page for a list
of some of its many nice features.
We distribute a slightly modified version of
ttylinux-i386-5.3 from this webserver.
It is useful for test purposes because it is can be quickly
copied across networks. It also has an embedded DHCP client
so that its networking information can be configured by the
workspace service. It can be pinged and it runs SSHd by
default.
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| Prerequisites: |
- Xen 2+
- Default kernel suffices (networking, ext2)
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| Download: |
ttylinux-xen.tgz (1.9M)
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| Metadata: |
sample-workspace.xml
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AliEn Appliance
| Description: |
Quoting from the
AliEn
Appliance homepage:
"AliEn is a lightweight Grid framework built around Open
Source components using a combination of Web Services and
distributed agents. It was initially developed by the
ALICE collaboration at CERN as a production environment
for the simulation, reconstruction, and analysis of
physics data."
Also refer to the
AliEn
homepage for more information.
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| Prerequisites: |
- Xen 2+
-
Kernel requires CODA support, version X.X
-
The CODA userspace tools in the AliEn Appliance
require matching target memory architecture for
the kernel. Both 32 and 64 bit userspace images are
available.
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| Download: |
See the
AliEn
Appliance homepage and choose the "x86 Mountable
Filesystem (Xen Virtual Appliance)".
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| Metadata: |
alien-0.4-metadata.xml
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Getting Started
You've downloaded a workspace. "Now what?"
If you have the workspace service installed and running or have been given
access to a site running it, the best place to start is the
Workspace User Quickstart.
Otherwise you will need to configure resources with one or more VMMs and
install the gateway Workspace Service, see the
Workspace Admin Guide (and the
Workspace User Quickstart afterwards).
See the resources section below for tips and other
information.
Resources
Other useful VMs
Workspace client VM (Xen version)
| Description: |
This VM will give you a full workspace client environment.
For more information about what this means, see
here.
It is based on the Gentoo distribution. Below find
extended notes about its user accounts, passwords, Globus
environment, networking setup, and SSH setup, see
the gentoo-base and
globus-base extended notes.
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| Prerequisites: |
- Xen 2+
- Default kernel suffices (networking, ext2)
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| Download: |
workspace-client-02.xen.TP1.2.3.tar.bz2 - 183M
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Workspace client VM (VMware version)
| Description: |
This VM will give you a full workspace client environment.
For more information about what this means, see
here.
It is based on the Gentoo distribution. Below find
extended notes about its user accounts, passwords, Globus
environment, networking setup, and SSH setup, see
the gentoo-base and
globus-base extended notes.
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| Prerequisites: |
- VMware ESX 2.x +, GSX 3.x +, ACE 1.x +, or Workstation 4.x +
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| Download: |
workspace-client-02.vmware.TP1.2.3.tar.bz2 - 185M
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Other VMs online
Other places to find free, preconfigured VMs are:
If you're faced with a VM and no workspace metadata, see the
metadata
quickstart to help you get one together in just a few minutes.
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