TY - JFULL AU - Kyrre M Begnum and Matthew Disney PY - 2008/11/ TI - Scalable Deployment and Configuration of High-Performance Virtual Clusters T2 - International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering SP - 3521 EP - 3527 VL - 2 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/14849 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 22, 2008 N2 - Virtualization and high performance computing have been discussed from a performance perspective in recent publications. We present and discuss a flexible and efficient approach to the management of virtual clusters. A virtual machine management tool is extended to function as a fabric for cluster deployment and management. We show how features such as saving the state of a running cluster can be used to avoid disruption. We also compare our approach to the traditional methods of cluster deployment and present benchmarks which illustrate the efficiency of our approach. ER -