Management of Virtual Machines on Globus Grids Using GridWay

Virtual machines are a promising technology to overcome some of the problems found in current grid infrastructures, like heterogeneity, performance partitioning or application isolation. In this work, we present straightforward deployment of virtual machines in globus grids. This solution is based on standard services and does not require additional middleware to be installed. Also, we assess the suitability of this deployment in the execution of a high throughput scientific application, the XMM-Newton scientific analysis system.