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This tutorial is a hands-on introduction to virtual appliances, in
particular the Grid Appliance. The Grid Appliance provides a
simple-to-use framework to create virtual clusters, and is used in
several FutureGrid tutorials.

In this tutorial you will install and use the Grid Appliance on your own
computer, and go through basic interactions with the appliance:
accessing the appliance, copying files, and submitting a simple job
for execution on remote Grid appliances using Condor.


**Prerequisites**:
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#. Intel/AMD-based desktop or laptop computer
#. 512MB or more memory
#. Privileges to install virtual machine software (VMware,
   VirtualBox, or KVM) if not already installed on your computer


**Hands-on Tutorial**:
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This tutorial is maintained at the Grid Appliance portal. See `Grid
Appliance
Tutorial <http://www.grid-appliance.org/wiki/index.php/Grid_Appliance_Tutorial>`_ (opens
in new window).



**Reference Material:**
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Presentation: `Introduction to the Grid
Appliance <http://www.grid-appliance.org/files/docs/edu-docs/GridApplianceIntro.pdf>`__

Videos: `Grid Appliance YouTube
channel <http://www.youtube.com/acisp2p#p/c/D77781CEF51F72F3>`__


**Authors:**
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Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida