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Virtual Distro Dispatcher: A Costless Distributed Virtual Environment from Trashware

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Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications (ISPA 2007)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNTCS,volume 4742))

Abstract

Obsolete hardware can be effectively reused through intelligent software optimization, which is possible only when source code is available. Virtual Distro Dispatcher (VDD) is a system that produces virtual machines on a central server and projects them on a number of costless physical terminals. VDD is the result of an extreme software optimisation based on virtualization and terminal servers. VDD creates and projects Linux distros that are completely customizable and different from each other. They are virtual desktop machines that can be used for testing or developing and are completely controllable directly from each terminal. Memory consumption has been strongly reduced without sacrificing performances. Test results are encouraging to proceed with the research towards clustering.

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica “Antonio Ruberti”, Università degli studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy

    Flavio Bertini, D. Davide Lamanna & Roberto Baldoni

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  1. Flavio Bertini
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Ivan Stojmenovic Ruppa K. Thulasiram Laurence T. Yang Weijia Jia Minyi Guo Rodrigo Fernandes de Mello

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Bertini, F., Lamanna, D.D., Baldoni, R. (2007). Virtual Distro Dispatcher: A Costless Distributed Virtual Environment from Trashware. In: Stojmenovic, I., Thulasiram, R.K., Yang, L.T., Jia, W., Guo, M., de Mello, R.F. (eds) Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications. ISPA 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4742. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74742-0_22

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