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XtremWeb Condor : sharing resources between Internet connected Condor pools. O. Lodygensky, G. Fedak, F. Cappello, V. Neri, M. Livny, D. Thain LAL, Laboratoire de l’Accelerateur Lineaire, France LRI, Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique, France Department of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, USA Abstract cluster). The Grid solution must fulfill at least two enabling features: security and fault tolerance. Grid computing presents two major challenges for de- These applications are also interesting from the com- ploying large scale applications across wide area networks puter scientist point of view because they can fit the two gathering volunteers PC and clusters/parallel computers as known approaches of Large Scale Distributed Computing : computational resources: security and fault tolerance. peer to peer computing (P2P) and Grid computing [4]. This paper presents a lightweight Grid solution for the deployment of multi-parameters applications on a set of clusters protected by firewalls. The system uses a hierar- “Grid” main goal is to achieve flexible and secure large chical design based on Condor for managing each cluster scale computing with high performances between so called locally and XtremWeb for enabling resource sharing among virtual organizations, entities that accept a r