Using virtualization to protect the proprietary material science applications in volunteer computing
Abstract: USPEX is a world-leading software for computational material design. In essence, USPEX splits simulation into a large number of workunits that can be processed independently. This scheme ideally fits the desktop grid architecture. Workunit processing is done by a simulation package aimed at energy minimization. Many of such packages are proprietary and should be protected from unauthorized access when running on a volunteer PC. In this paper we present an original approach based on virtualization. In a nutshell, the proprietary code and input files are stored in an encrypted folder and run inside a virtual machine image that is also password protected. The paper describes this approach in detail and discusses its application in USPEX@home volunteer project.
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Using virtualization to protect the proprietary material science applications in volunteer computing ; volume:8 ; number:1 ; year:2018 ; pages:57-60 ; extent:4
Open engineering ; 8, Heft 1 (2018), 57-60 (gesamt 4)
- Creator
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Khrapov, Nikolay P.
Rozen, Valery V.
Samtsevich, Artem I.
Posypkin, Mikhail A.
Sukhomlin, Vladimir A.
Oganov, Artem R.
- DOI
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10.1515/eng-2018-0009
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2412141617064.327345741000
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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Associated
- Khrapov, Nikolay P.
- Rozen, Valery V.
- Samtsevich, Artem I.
- Posypkin, Mikhail A.
- Sukhomlin, Vladimir A.
- Oganov, Artem R.
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