HEPiX Fall 2011 Workshop

Session

Grid, Cloud & Virtualisation

26 Oct 2011, 08:30

Hosted by TRIUMF, SFU and the University of Victoria at the Harbour Center - Downtown Vancouver

Conveners

Grid, Cloud & Virtualisation

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Grid, Cloud & Virtualisation

• Ian Gable (University of Victoria)
• Tony Cass (CERN)
• John Gordon (Particle Physics-Rutherford Appleton Laboratory-STFC - Science)
• Keith Chadwick (Fermilab)

5. CloudMan and VMIC projects overview

Belmiro Daniel Rodrigues Moreira (CERN)

26/10/2011, 08:30

Grid, cloud and virtualization

CERN is developing a different set of tools to improve and agile the Cloud Computing infrastructure. Currently there are two active important projects: CloudMan is a project developed in collaboration with BARC institute and the VMIC project is developed in collaboration with ASGC. The CloudMan project consists in the development of an Enterprise Graphical Management tool for IT resources...

6. lxcloud infrastructure - status and lessons learned

Belmiro Daniel Rodrigues Moreira (CERN)

26/10/2011, 08:55

Grid, cloud and virtualization

In December 2010 CERN moved parts of the batch resources into a cloud like infrastructure, and is running some of the batch resources in a fully virtualized infrastructure since then. This presentation will give an overview over the experiences learned from this exercise, the performance and results, impressions on operational overhead, and problems seen since the deployment of the...

44. Distributing images with image lists

Owen Millington Synge

26/10/2011, 09:25

Grid, cloud and virtualization

The use of signed image lists, and updates the use of signed image lists.

20. OpenShift

Mr Troy Dawson (Red Hat)

26/10/2011, 09:50

Grid, cloud and virtualization

OpenShift is a collection of cloud services forming a solid redefining Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for developers who build apps on open source technologies.

26. Virtualisation Working Group Status

Dr Tony Cass (CERN)

26/10/2011, 10:50

Grid, cloud and virtualization

An update on the progress of the working group since the Spring HEPiX meeting at GSI.

38. "A year in the life of Eucalyptus"

Iwona Sakrejda

26/10/2011, 11:10

Grid, cloud and virtualization

Funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act) through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the Magellan project was charged with a task of evaluating if cloud computing could meet specialized needs of scientists. Split between two DOE centers: the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) in California and the Argonne Leadership Computing...

51. Virtualisation and Clouds at RAL

Ian Collier (UK Tier1 Centre)

26/10/2011, 11:35

Grid, cloud and virtualization

Status of work on virtualisation and cloud computing at the RAL Tier 1.

56. OpenStack: The OpenSource Cloud’s Application in High Energy Physics

Neil Johnston (Piston Cloud Computing)

26/10/2011, 12:00

Grid, cloud and virtualization

OpenStack’s mission is “To produce the ubiquitous Open Source cloud computing platform that will meet the needs of public and private cloud providers regardless of size, by being simple to implement and massively scalable." This talk will review the implications of this vision to meet the storage and compute needs of data intensive research projects, then examine OpenStack’s potential as a...