Oliver OBERST

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - Germany

I started to work as a PhD student at Karlsruhe in August 2007. The thesis will consist of two parts, a computational one and a physics analysis. At the moment a computing cluster at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology is shared among eight different departments and will also be part of the WLCG as the UNI-KARSLRUHE Tier 3 site. To run Grid jobs on such a shared cluster the incompatibilities between the requirements in hard and software of the different user groups are resolved in using virtualization techniques to partition the computing cluster dynamically. My current task is to implement this functionality into the batch system, that it can manage the virtual machines (virtual worker nodes) to connect the cluster and its mass storage system to the WLCG.