Paper Info
Title
Using User-Level Virtualization in Desktop Grid Clients for Application Delivery and Sandboxing
Abstract
Desktop grid is a form of distributed computing that harvests the computing power of idle desktop computers whether these are volunteers or deployed at an institution. This paper proposes to design and implement a client-end framework of desktop grid, based on cloud storage, which can also deliver legacy applications on-demand to volunteer machines. From technical viewpoint, an isolated execution environment based on user-level virtualization will be achieved: on one side, some resource-accessing APIs for applications are intercepted and redirected to real storage positions (on the cloud); therefore legacy applications can run without installation to simplify maintenance. On the other side, this mechanism can also construct a sandbox to restrict the access range of applications for security. This proposal adopts promising cloud-related technologies for requirements of volunteer computing, tests show that it only causes limited performance loss.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/PAAP.2011.44
PAAP
Keywords
Field
DocType
microcomputers,access range,client-end framework,cloud storage,application program interfaces,sandboxing,idle desktop computer,real storage position,grid computing,user-level virtualization,application delivery,legacy application,software maintenance,virtualisation,isolated execution environment,desktop grid,cloud-related technology,volunteer computing,computing power,distributed computing,cloud computing,resource-accessing api,desktop grid clients,desktop computers,servers,hidden markov models,hidden markov model,security
Sandbox (computer security),Virtualization,Grid computing,Computer science,Server,Virtual desktop,Cloud storage,Operating system,Legacy system,Cloud computing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4577-1808-3
0
0.34
References 
Authors
7
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Youhui Zhang120228.36
Yanhua Li2122.68
Weimin Zheng31889182.48