Building a Linux Grid on a Virtual Machine Using a Windows Grid

In recent years, computing demands have increased greatly. Many researchers have studied on grid computing in order to satisfy the demands. Several researches focus on virtual computing environment known as cloud computing. In cloud computing, computing resources are virtualized, divided into small units and re-organized as arbitrary heterogeneous platform. However, it is difficult to develop the application because cloud computing needs massive resources. In this paper, we propose virtual grid for cloud computing, in which Linux grid is constructed on Windows grid. This utilizes many Windows PCs as grid platform and realizes all functions of Linux grid.