Virtual Computers and Virtualization of Computing Infrastructure

• Lecture title:
  Virtual Computers and Virtualization of Computing Infrastructure
  
  
• Guarantor:
  Doc. RNDr. Luděk MATYSKA, CSc.
  
  
• Annotation:
  Virtualization - creating the illusion that we have more resources than actually physically available - is a relatively old concept, used
  in computer technology for decades. However, it is possible and relatively easy to virtualize the entire computer with the increase in the performance of the processors' technical parameters and other components of today's computers. In the lecture we will show the basic principles of virtualization as well as the form of hardware support provided by state-of-the-art processors. At the same time, we will show how the concept of virtual machines can be used to construct the entire computing infrastructure - a distributed environment of computer grids. Adding virtualisation to the computer network, we can create and run parallel virtual clusters, with different versions of operating systems, giving users the illusion of "their" complete, large-scale computing environments that seemingly do not have to share with anyone. Finally, we will show how such a large, virtualized computing infrastructure is being built in the Czech Republic.
  
  
• Time range of the lecture: 2 hours.
  
  
• Venue:
  Faculty of Informatics, Botanická 68a, Brno, lecture room D3
  
  
• Dates: 1. 11. 2007 from 14 hrs.
  
  
• Lecture price: free of charge
  
  
• Contact person:
  RNDr. Jaroslav Pelikán, Ph.D., Faculty of Informatics MU, Brno, Botanická 68a, 602 00 Brno
  Tel: +420 549 495 751, e-mail: pelikan@fi.muni.cz