Dear all,

After having successfully set up a small-scale (but up-and-running) 
experimental Private Cloud (using OpenSUSE 12.1 64bit machines -also VM's-, KVM 
as hypervisor, and ONE 3.2.0), my next task is to find a way in which GRID-like 
services (see below) could be implemented inside an OpenNebula-based Cloud. 
Basically, and architecturally-speaking, I think I would need a PaaS layer 
above my existing IaaS layer. 

I am interested in the following tasks:

* job distribution among a set of dynamically created (or, as a start, fixed) 
VM's, initiated by a master-VM
* job execution on the worker-VM's and, more importantly, execution monitoring 
of these jobs by the master-VM
* results gathering on the master-VM

I have briefly looked though Hadoop, which uses MapReduce, but, having no 
experience with it, I am not sure whether if it is the best tool to use for 
such a use-case, and also, I don't know if it could be at all used in my 
environment. So, my fundamental question is the following: which is the best 
way to start on, a way that would lead to satisfying my above-mentioned 3 
necessities?
Is Hadoop perfectly compatible with OpenNebula, and could be used for such 
purposes, or are there other and more fitting solutions or tools to use? 
Basically, all I'm asking is, what is the most appropriate way for obtaining 
these basic GRID-computing functionalities on a Platform constructed above the 
Infrastructure?

Any suggestions, thoughts, and hints are extremely welcome, since this is a 
rather important and
 urgent matter for me.

Thank you, 
Lehel.

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