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+%         Registration            Linux Virtualization on Virtual Iron VFe    
+%  [2]Register/Submit Proposal Alex Vasilevsky (alex@virtualiron.com)         
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+After many years of research and development,  
+the concept of cluster-based computing         
+seamlessly integrating a set of computing      
+resources into a cohesive whole has gone       
+largely unfulfilled. The barrier to adoption   
+of cluster-based computing has been that       
+applications must be made cluster-aware. The   
+best technology that is currently available is 
+a set of middleware tools, such as the Globus  
+toolkit, which is used to rework applications  
+to run on a cluster. Because it is difficult   
+to make applications run in parallel on a      
+cluster, only a handful of highly specialized  
+applications sometimes referred to as          
+``embarrassingly parallel'' applications, have   
+been made cluster-aware. Of the very few       
+commercial cluster-aware applications, the     
+best known is Oracle Database Real Application 
+Clustering. Virtual Iron(R) Software has       
+solved these problems by creating Virtual Iron 
+VFe, which allows any applications to          
+transparently run on a tightly-coupled        
+cluster of computers without any               
+modifications. This software elegantly         
+abstracts the underlying cluster of servers    
+with a Distributed Virtual Machine Monitor.    
+Like many other Virtual Machines Monitors,     
+this software layer takes complete control of  
+the underlying hardware and creates virtual    
+machines, each of which behaves like a         
+complete physical machine running its own      
+operating system in full isolation. In         
+contrast to other existing Virtual Machines    
+Monitors, the Distributed Virtual Machine      
+Monitor creates a virtual multi-processor on a 
+collection of tightly coupled servers. The     
+system gives guest operating systems the       
+illusion that it is running on a single        
+multi-processor machine with \textit{N} CPUs on top   
+of \textit{M} physical servers interconnected by      
+networks. In this paper we'll describe Linux   
+Virtualization on Virtual Iron VFe, the        
+virtualization capabilities of the Virtual     
+Iron(R) Distributed VMM technology, as well as 
+the changed made to the Linux kernel to take   
+advantage of this new distributed              
+virtualization technology.                     
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