Rainbow framework: Running virtual machines on demand as a grid jobs

Rainbow is the system for running hardware accelerated virtual machines with an interactive access capability as grid jobs submitted to the Advanced Resource Connector (ARC) [1] powered infrastructure. Methods for running virtual machine as a grid jobs as well as Rainbow architecture has been proposed and implemented for practical use in the Ukrainian National Grid (UNG). Rainbow framework had been successfully applied in the MedGrid project for visualization and analysis of ECG stored on UNG resources by means of running proprietary software developed for OS Windows [2].