Andres Lagar-Cavilla from the University of Toronto presented a unique methodology to create “instant” DomUs within a cloud on demand. His project, Snowflock, is detailed below: Snowflock is our prototype implementation of the Impromptu Cluster (IC) abstraction. In an IC, an application encapsulated inside a virtual machine (VM) is swiftly
I have updated the Xen.org site and created a new Xen Summit Boston page: http://www.xen.org/xensummit/xensummit_summer_2008.html I am still collecting presentation slides and converting them to pdf so not everything is live yet. I will also be adding the videos of the
Here are some more pictures from Day 2… Â http://richcrusco-live.spaces.live.com/photos/cns!964334461AD1B983!374/
Over the next few days I will be putting out highlights from this year’s Xen Summit in Boston. Many interesting projects, concepts, and “Xen deployments” were presented and I want to share some of these with you. I will also be setting up a new page on Xen.org
Lots of information from Xen Summit is coming…in the meantime, here are some pictures from the event: http://community.citrix.com/blogs/citrite/richcr/2008/06/23/XenSummit+2008+Boston+-+Day+1
If you have the time today, you can help the Firefox folks set a record: Firefox 3 is here! Set a Guinness World Record for the most downloads in 24 hours and download Firefox today.
From Clarkson University, http://web2.clarkson.edu/news/view.php?id=2028. Also, the Xen training day session for USENIX is the second most registered for class at USENIX Technical Conference; we are only 1 person behind the most registered for class so I expect it to be a photo
Quick update for those of you following the Xen API Community project – I am close to having a Xen developer from Citrix confirmed for our next meeting to answer questions about the API specifications. Since Xen Summit is coming up, I am planning on having this 2nd project meeting the
128 people are now registered for Xen Summit in 2 weeks and I look forward to meeting with everyone in Boston. As a reminder, online registration will close next Monday, June 16 at noon (PDT). All registration after that time will be onsite beginning Saturday, June 21, 5-7pm and then
The Program Committee for Xen Summit Boston has almost completed the creation of the event agenda and it should be available for public consumption tomorrow afternoon (EST). As there was a limited number of speaking slots available, several interesting and worthwhile topics had to be rejected for the event. To
Xen Summit Boston is rapidly approaching and the Program Committee is almost complete with topic selection. Topics from Xen development partners such as Intel, AMD, IBM, Citrix, etc will be presented alongside with research from universities such as Clarkson, India Institute of Technology, University of Toronto, Binghamton, University of Maryland,
I have created a new xen-mailing list for those people interested in discussing research related topics for Xen. The email is xen-research@lists.xensource.com and you can register at http://lists.xensource.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-research.