After 8 years of service, In-VIGO infrastructure has been discontinued. We would like to thank all users, collaborators and contributors who helped its development. Funding for In-VIGO was provided by the National Science Foundation, the Bell South Foundation, the Army Research Office Defense University Research Initiative in Nanotechnology, the Office of Naval Research, NOAA Ocean Service, SUR grants from IBM, gifts from VMware Corporation, and others.

In-VIGO was a research project that pioneered the use of virtualization technologies to offer flexible execution environments for scientific applications and collaborative tools with different requirements, integrating virtualized back-ends, and a web-based interface allowing users to submit requests for application execution or creation of collaborative environments. The In-VIGO research was complemented by the development and deployment of a Web-based infrastructure that served over 600 users from 11 countries. Concepts introduced by the In-VIGO project have been adopted by other projects within and outside the ACIS Lab.

In-VIGO will continue to be used for internal development and collaborative work such as bioinformatics applications at http://invigo.acis.ufl.edu/icbr/.

The following is a partial list of publications about In-VIGO:

1. Adabala, Sumalatha; Chadha, Vineet; Chawla, Puneet; Figueiredo, Renato; Fortes, José; Krsul, Ivan; Matsunaga, Andréa; Tsugawa, Maurício; Zhang, Jian; Zhao, Ming; Zhu, Liping; Zhu, Xiaomin. 'From Virtualized Resources to Virtual Computing Grids: The In-VIGO System'. In Future Generation Computer Systems, v.21, n.6, April, 2005. DOI:10.1016/j.future.2003.12.021.
2. Adabala, Sumalatha; Matsunaga, Andréa; Tsugawa, Maurício; Figueiredo, Renato; Fortes, José A.B. 'Single Sign-On in In-VIGO: Role-based Access via Delegation Mechanisms Using Short-lived User Identities'. In Proceedings of 18th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS-2004), Santa Fe, New Mexico, p.22, 26-30 April, 2004. DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2004.1302930.
3. Sanjeepan, Vivekananthan; Matsunaga, Andréa; Zhu, Liping; Lam, Herman; Fortes, José A.B. 'A Service-Oriented, Scalable Approach to Grid-Enabling of Legacy Scientific Applications'. In Proceedings of 2005 International Conference on Web Services (ICWS-2005), Orlando, Florida, p.553-560, 11-15 July, 2005. DOI: 10.1109/ICWS.2005.17.
4. Matsunaga, Andréa; Tsugawa, Maurício; Zhao, Ming; Zhu, Liping; Sanjeepan, Vivekananthan; Adabala, Sumalatha; Figueiredo, Renato; Lam, Herman and Fortes, José A.B. 'On the Use of Virtualization and Service Technologies to Enable Grid-Computing'. In Proceedings of Euro-Par 2005 Parallel Processing: 11th International Euro-Par Conference (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, v.3648, p.1-12), August, 2005. DOI: 10.1007/11549468_1.
5. Zhu, Liping; Matsunaga, Andréa; Sanjeepan, Vivekananthan; Lam, Herman; Fortes, José A.B. 'Application Modeling and Representation for Automatic Grid-enabling of Legacy Applications'. In Proceedings of First International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing, p.24-31, 5-8 December, 2005. DOI: 10.1109/E-SCIENCE.2005.20.
6. Matsunaga, Andréa M.; Tsugawa, Maurício O.; Adabala, Sumalatha; Figueiredo, Renato J.; Lam, Herman; and Fortes, José A.B. 'Science gateways made easy: the In-VIGO approach'. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Wiley Press, v. 19(6), p.905-919, October, 2006. DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1083.
7. Tsugawa, Maurício; and Fortes, José A.B. 'A Virtual Network (ViNe) Architecture for Grid Computing'. In Proceedings of 20th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS-2006), Rhodes Island, Greece, p.10, April, 2006. DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2006.1639380.
8. Zhao, Ming; Zhang, Jian; Figueiredo, Renato 'Distributed File System Support for Virtual Machines in Grid Computing'. In Proceedings of 13th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-2004), Honolulu, Hawaii, p.202-211, 4-6 June, 2004.
9. Ghodke, Ninad H.; Figueiredo, Renato J. 'On the Implications of Machine Virtualization for DRM and Fair Use: A Case Study of a Virtual Audio Device Driver'. In Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management (DRM 2004), Washington D.C., 25 October, 2004.
10. Krsul, Ivan V.; Ganguly, Arijit; Zhang, Jian; Fortes, José A.B.; Figueiredo, Renato J. 'VMPlants: Providing and Managing Virtual Machine Execution Environments for Grid Computing'. In Proceedings of of the ACM/IEEE Supercomputing 2004 Conference , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, p.7, 06-12 November, 2004.
11. Xu, Jing; Adabala, Sumalatha; and Fortes, José A. B. 'Towards Autonomic Virtual Applications in the In-VIGO System'. In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC-05) , Seattle, Washington, p.15-26, 13-16 June, 2005. DOI: 10.1109/ICAC.2005.62.
12. Paladugula, Jithendar; Zhao, Ming; Figueiredo, Renato J. 'Support for Data-Intensive, Variable-Granularity Grid Applications via Distributed File System Virtualization - A Case Study of Light Scattering Spectroscopy'. In Proceedings of of the Second International Workshop on Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments (CLADE-2004), p.12-21, 7 June, 2004.