An new incremental stable release of the GridWay Metascheduler is available for download.
It adds missing files for installing some MADs, and fixes bugs in the CREAM and BDII drivers. If you have GridWay working, there is no need for upgrading.
You can find more information in the release notes.
Enjoy! And let us know.
The GridWay team.
Our latest work in the context of the Mars MetNet mission has been featured on Datanami, an on-line publication devoted to Big Data. This mission brings together Finland, Russia and Spain, aiming to deploy a meteorological network on the Mars surface consisting in several tens of probes.
This time, the challenge has to do with the data gathered by NASA’s Viking landers 40 years ago. Its re-process will not only aid in the formulation of valid Martian weather models but also to improve the Cloud framework that will be used for the future data from the Mars MetNet probes.
You can read the full article here.
The International Workshop on Clouds for Business and Business for Clouds (C4BB4C) will be held at the 10th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA2012).
Cloud Computing has acquired enough maturity to expand its field of application to business. Yet there are not only institutions which use this paradigm in their production line but there are also those which are offering services through the cloud.
This workshop intends to put together efforts done from service producers and consumers in order to make Cloud Computing provide an added value to the economy of any kind of institution. Technologies, policies and heuristics will be shared, not discarding those coming from other areas that would benefit Cloud Computing.
The Workshop intends also to focus on how services are delivered through the cloud as a popular strategic technology choice for businesses that provides a flexible, ubiquitous and consistent platform accessible from anywhere at any time.
The interface of software services and cloud computing provides a rich area for research and experience to give a unique insight into how cloud-based service can be achieved in practice. We encourage submissions of research papers on work in the area of Cloud Computing, Service Engineering, and especially welcome papers describing developments in cloud-enabled business process management and all related areas, such as deployment techniques, business models for cloud-based enterprises and experience reports from practitioners.
Extended version of selected papers will be included in a special issue of Scientific Computing: Practice and Experience.
This Workshop couldn’t be possible without the following projects: MEDIANET (Comunidad de Madrid S2009/TIC-1468), HPCcloud (MICINN TIN2009-07146) and 4CaaSt (Gr. Agree. 258862).
What’s new in the European research and development area?
The research and development community involved in distributed computing is searching for viable solutions that will increase the adoption of cloud computing. This is the case of the collaborative work done by multi-national teams in the context of the FP7 programme of the European Commission.
Students, researchers and developers working in the field of distributed computing will find in this book a snapshot of the on-going activities in research and development of cloud computing undertaken at the European level. These activities are organized by the latest hot topics of cloud computing research, which include services, management, automation and adoption.
This book is a result of the collaboration with Prof. Dana Petcu from West University of Timisoara (Romania) and among its chapters, the reader will find one devoted to 4CaaSt and another to StratusLab, projects where the DSA-Research group is actively participating.
Detailed Information
Title: European Research Activities in Cloud Computing
Editors: Dana Petcu and José Luis Vázquez-Poletti
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Date Of Publication: Jan 2012
Isbn13: 978-1-4438-3507-7
Isbn: 1-4438-3507-2
The European Globus Community Forum (EGCF) is the organizational body of the Globus community in Europe. Its goal is to boost an integrated approach to collaboration on Globus development and to provide an organizational platform to foster cooperation within Europe and beyond. Its members are users, administrators, and developers, who are applying the Globus Toolkit as their middleware or are interested in doing so.
EGCF is following on the success of its first-ever annual meeting in 2011 by hosting its second forum meeting at Garching (near Munich), Germany on March 26, 2012. The organising committee is seeking Globus developers or users to submit proposals to present at this event.
See you there!
The GridWay team.
Every academic year, many students decide to develop their Master Thesis projects at the DSA-Research group, attracted by the idea of working in cloud computing. This technology opens up a world of research possibilities and engenders a fast learning process, allowing the students to develop projects in a reasonable time.
HPC in the Cloud has featured the brilliant work done (or in progress) at the following projects:
You can read the full article here.
After more than one year of joint work between our research group and others from Universidad Carlos III de Madrd (UC3M), Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) and Universidad de Castilla La Mancha (UCLM), we are happy to announce that our first public beta is ready for download!
iCanCloud is a simulation platform aimed to model and simulate cloud computing systems, which is targeted to those users who deal closely with those kinds of systems. The main objective of iCanCloud is to predict the trade-offs between cost and performance of a given set of applications executed in a specific hardware, and then provide to users useful information about such costs. However, iCanCloud can be used by a wide range of users, from basic active users to developers of large distributed applications.
The most remarkable features of the iCanCloud simulation platform include the following:
You can download your copy of iCanCloud at its website: http://icancloudsim.org/
Additionally, this collaboration has produced the following research papers so far:
Last week the 4CaaSt project faced its first year review at the European Commission in Brussels. They were two days devoted to presentations of each work package and live demos of several prototypes.
The feedback provided by the European Commission’s project officer and the reviewers was great. However, the most important outcome besides the good discussions and fair recommendations is that we will be facing many more interesting challenges during the next project year.
Congratulations to all partners for a first year of hard work!
PaaS technologies are on the peak of inflated expectations, and during the last year, several commercial offerings and technological platforms have been released.
The 4CaaSt project identifies the critical aspects in PaaS adoption by all players, from application developers to end users. This project will bring significant benefits to the European economy, by providing an easy to use Infrastructure for a More Competitive Environment, greatly simplifying design and delivery of tailored services and compositions.
As part of the outcomes of the first year of work, 4CaaSt has brought out a whitepaper in which the main value propositions and unique selling points of the technology being developed are detailed. This document provides an overview that may be complemented with the whole set of deliverables already available in the web page.
A new stable release of the GridWay Metascheduler is available for download.
This release comes with a new installation procedure, improvements in job polling, logging with syslog, forwarding of resource requirements to LRMSs, automatic disposal of jobs, a new execution driver for CREAM (Computing Resource Execution And Management) as used in gLite, a technology preview of an execution driver for OGSA-BES (Open Grid Services Architecture-Basic Execution Service) and, as always, some bug fixing. You can find more information in the release notes.
This stable release is based on a previous development one, 5.7, which has been thoroughly tested. It has been funded by the IGE project (Initiative for Globus in Europe), which aims to support and enhance the provision of Globus Grid software to European e-Infrastructures, like EGI (European Grid Infrastructure). Packages for the GridWay core and its GT5 drivers are included in the IGE Tech Preview.
Enjoy it! Your feedback is more than welcome.
The GridWay team.
