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Computational Scientists often cannot easily access the large amounts of resources their applications require. Legion is a collection of software services that facilitate the secure and easy use of local and non-local resources by providing the illusion of a single virtual machine from heterogeneous, geographically-distributed resources. This paper describes the newest additions to Legion that enable high-performance (capacity) computing as well as secure, fault-tolerant and collaborative (capability) computing.
This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation grant EIA- 9974968, DoD/Logicon contract 979103 (DAHC94-96-C-0008), and by the NASA Information Power Grid program.
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Natrajan, A., Humphrey, M.A., Grimshaw, A.S. (2001). Capacity and Capability Computing Using Legion. In: Alexandrov, V.N., Dongarra, J.J., Juliano, B.A., Renner, R.S., Tan, C.J.K. (eds) Computational Science — ICCS 2001. ICCS 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2073. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45545-0_36
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