======================================================================== VM-MAD

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This is a repository of the code produced by the VM-MAD project, funded by the SWITCH AAA scheme.

The aim of VM-MAD is to provide mechanisms for running scientific applications on virtualized infrastructures (clouds). In detail, VM-MAD consists of the following components:

• a repository of VM images and associated metadata;
• a Python library to control the full lifetime of a VM instance on different cloud backends;
• an "orchestrator" component to extend SGE/OGS clusters with virtualized compute nodes;
• command-line tools to access the basic functionality of the above components.

Installation instructions and further reading

For up-to-date information, please visit the VM-MAD repository at: http://github.com/uzh/vm-mad/

Installation instructions are in the INSTALL.txt file (in this same directory), or read them online at: https://github.com/uzh/vm-mad/blob/master/doc/install.txt

A general description of the project is available through https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.2529.

.. References

.. _VM-MAD: http://github.com/uzh/vm-mad/

.. arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.2529

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