Conveners
Grids, Clouds and Virtualisation
- Ian Peter Collier (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))
- Brian Paul Bockelman (University of Nebraska (US))
Grids, Clouds and Virtualisation: Grids, Clouds and Virtualisation
- Ian Peter Collier (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))
- Brian Paul Bockelman (University of Nebraska (US))
George Ryall
(STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab.)
26/03/2015, 14:00
Grid, Cloud & Virtualisation
The STFC Scientific computing department has been developing an OpenNebula based cloud underpinned by Ceph block storage. I will describe some of our use cases, our set up,and give a demonstration of our development VM on demand service. I will go on to explore some of the problems we have overcome to reach this point. Finally, I will present the work we are doing to use spare capacity on...
Bruno Bompastor
(CERN)
26/03/2015, 14:25
Grid, Cloud & Virtualisation
This is a report on the current status and future plans of CERN’s OpenStack-based Cloud Infrastructure.
Alexander Dibbo
(urn:Google)
26/03/2015, 14:50
Grid, Cloud & Virtualisation
The Scientific Computing Department at the STFC has been developing a Ceph block storage backed OpenNebula cloud. We have carried out a quantitative evaluation of the performance characteristics of virtual machines which have been instantiated with a variety of different storage configurations (using both Ceph and local disks). I will describe our motivations for this testing, our methodology...
Andrew McNab
(University of Manchester (GB))
26/03/2015, 15:15
Grid, Cloud & Virtualisation
The Vacuum model provides a method for managing the lifecycle of virtual machines based on their observed success or failure in finding work to do for their experiment. In contrast to centrally managed grid job
submission and cloud VM instantiation systems, the Vacuum model gives resource providers direct control over which experiments' VMs or jobs are created and in what proportion. This...
John Hover
(Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)-Unknown-Unknown)
26/03/2015, 16:05
Grid, Cloud & Virtualisation
Beginning in September 2014, the RACF at Brookhaven National Lab has been collaborating with Amazon's scientific computing group in a pilot project. The goal of this project is to demonstrate the usage of Amazon AWS (EC2, S3, etc.) for real-world ATLAS production. This will prove the practical and economic feasibility of ATLAS beginning to leverage commercial cloud computing to optimize...
Mr
Dario Rivera
(Amazon Web Services)
26/03/2015, 16:30
Grid, Cloud & Virtualisation
On the heals of discussing the BNL RACF Group's Proof Of Concept on AWS, this session will share best practices on some of the most common AWS services used by Big Science, such as EC2, VPC, S3, and complex hybrid networking and routing. We will also provide an overview of the AWS Scientific Computing Group which was created to help Global Scientific collaborations develop and ecosystem...
Bruno Bompastor
(CERN)
26/03/2015, 16:55
Grid, Cloud & Virtualisation
Heat, the Openstack orchestration service, is being deployed at CERN. We will be presenting the overall architecture and features included in the project, our deployment challenges and future plans.
Mr
Levente Hajdu
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
26/03/2015, 17:20
Grid, Cloud & Virtualisation
In statistically hungry science domains, data taking data deluges can be both a blessing and a curse. They allow the winnowing out of statistical errors from known measurements, open the door to new scientific opportunities as the physics program matures but are also a testament to the efficiency of the experiment and accelerator and skill of its operators. However, the data samples need to be...
