Towards XtreemOS in the Clouds - Automatic Deployment of an XtreemOS Resource in a Nimbus Cloud

Cloud is a new computing model which seamlessly provides on-demand resource lease as transparent services to the user and it is based on virtualization technologies. Grid is a mature model based on his ideas of Virtual Organizations and collaborative sharing of resources between them. Nimbus is an open source cloud computing framework. XtreemOS is an open source, Linux based, Grid operating system, with native support for Virtual Organizations. The main purpose of this work is to use a Nimbus Cloud, in order to provide on-demand resource nodes for an XtreemOS Grid. Nimbus implements an extensible IaaS cloud based on Xen virtual machines.