4th EGEE User Forum/OGF 25 and OGF Europe's 2nd International Event

Session

Novel Services and Technologies

4 Mar 2009, 11:00

Le Ciminiere, Catania, Sicily, Italy

Description

There is a lot of interest in exploring the use of the emerging services, cloud provisioning models and virtualization technologies within Grid infrastructures. Cloud providers of elastic capacity could be used to scale-out a Grid site in order to meet fluctuating demands or to fast provision a virtualized Grid site. Virtualization technologies provide several benefits for Grid site maintenance, operation and use, such as reduction of gridification cycles, fault tolerance, easier middleware deployment, performance partitioning, easy support for different VOs. Finally, the optimization of typical Grid services would considerably improve the performance of the infrastructure.

The session agenda reflects topics on the integration of novel services and technologies into EGEE. The first talk shows how to achieve high availability of critical EGEE site services using virtualization.  The aim of the second talk is to describe challenges raised in the deployment of a Grid site in the Cloud, addressing security and operational policies. Finally, the last talk describes the incorporation of caching mechanisms in DBII and its benefits in terms of bandwidth and performance.

15. A new approach to High Availability

Dr Federico Calzolari (Scuola Normale Superiore - INFN Pisa)

04/03/2009, 11:00

Emerging Technologies within the EGEE infrastructure

Oral

High availability has always been one of the main problems for a data center. Till now high availability was achieved by host per host redundancy, a highly expensive method in terms of hardware and human costs. A new approach to the problem can now be offered by virtualization. Using virtualization, it is possible to achieve a redundancy system for all the services running on a data center.

93. Operating a Grid Site in the Cloud

Dr Charles Loomis (CNRS/LAL)

04/03/2009, 11:25

Emerging Technologies within the EGEE infrastructure

Oral

Cloud technologies have matured quickly over the last couple of years and now provide an interesting platform on which to host grid services. The dynamic nature of these resources could ease life-cycle management for system administrators and could provide customized resources for users. However, questions remain about how these resources can meet the grid's security and operational...