XtreemOS: a Grid OS providing native Virtual Organization support

The emergence of Grids enables the sharing of a wide range of resources for solving large-scale computational and data intensive problems in science, engineering and business. While much has been done to build Grid middleware on top of existing operating systems, little has been done to extend the underlying operating systems for enabling and facilitating Grid computing, for example by embedding important functionalities directly into the operating system. XtreemOS project aims at investigating and proposing new services that should be added to current operating systems to build a Grid infrastructure in a simple way.