Controlling the XenoServer Open Platform
Steven J. Hand, Tim Harris, Evangelos Kotsovinos, Ian A. Pratt · 2004
This paper presents the design of the XenoServer Open Platform: a public infrastructure for wide-area computing, capable of hosting tasks that span the full spectrum of distributed programming. The platform integrates resource management, charging and auditing. We emphasize the control-plane aspects of the system, showing how it supports service deployment with a low cost of entry and how it forms a substrate over which other distributed computing platforms can be deployed.