| Monday, June 21 |
| 6:15 pm - 7:45 pm | |
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Welcome Reception/Demos
(90 mins)
Joint Welcome Reception with OGF and HPDC, and Demos of Cloud and Grid standards and technology in action.
Cloud and Grid Demonstrations
The Open Grid Forum (www.ogf.org) and the ACM International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (hpdc2010.eecs.northwestern.edu) are hosting cloud and grid demonstrations to promote the development and adoption of best practices and standards. Plenary presentations will be given immediately after lunch, to be followed by the actual demonstrations in a joint OGF/HPDC Reception after the afternoon sessions. The following teams will demonstrate:
1) The OGF/SNIA Joint Cloud Standards Demo
Come see the live demonstration of an infrastructure cloud incorporating standards from OGF and SNIA. The Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) standard from OGF allows clients to interoperably manage their cloud computing resources. The technology underlying the OCCI implementation is OpenNebula. The Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) standard from SNIA allows clients to interoperably manage their cloud storage resources. The CDMI implementation is an open source reference implementation done by the SNIA. This demonstration will show these open source reference implementations of these important cloud standards working together for the first time. (POC: Mark Carlson, Oracle; Thijs Metsch, Platform Computing)
2) On Demand Computing Resources for Human Assisted Disaster Relief
The Open Cloud Consortium has a started a project to provide on demand computing resources to assist with disaster relief. The goal of this project is not only to provide on-demand storage and compute resources to volunteer, humanitarian and non-government organizations that are providing disaster assistance, but also to provide a testbed for cloud interoperability and intercloud services. We will demonstrate an initial version of the facility that provides on-demand change detection for large collections of images. For more information, please see: www.opencloudconsortium.org. (POC: Robert Grossman, Open Cloud Consortium)
3) Demonstration of the Use of REST with SNIA CDMI by Xiotech and Olocity
Xiotech and Olocity will demonstrate the use of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) Architecture http://www.snia.org/cloud with Representational State Transfer (REST) web services for accessing and controlling storage resources through the cloud with Olocity’s StorageIM and Xiotech’s Intelligent Storage Element (ISE) and CorteX (RESTful Web Services) products. The demonstration will illustrate how products using industry standards and open source can easily interoperate together to provide cloud storage resources and services. (POC: Hope Hines, Olocity; Jeffery Nicolson, Xiotech)
4) Sky Computing on FutureGrid and Grid'5000
"Sky computing" is an emerging computing model where resources from multiple cloud providers are leveraged to create large scale distributed infrastructures. This demonstration will show how sky computing resources can be used as a platform for the execution of a bioinformatics application (BLAST). The application will be dynamically scaled out with new resources as need arises. This demonstration will also show how resources across two experimental projects: the FutureGrid experimental testbed in the United States and the Grid'5000, an infrastructure for large scale parallel and distributed computing research in France, can be combined and used to support large scale, distributed experiments. The demo will showcase not only the capabilities of the experimental platforms, but also their emerging collaboration. Finally, the demo will showcase several open source technologies. Specifically, our demo will use Nimbus for cloud management, offering virtual machine provisioning and contextualization services, ViNe to enable all-to-all communication among multiple clouds, and Hadoop for parallel fault-tolerant execution of BLAST. (POC: Kate Keahey, Mauricio Tsugawa, ANL; Pierre Riteau, IRISA)
5) XCG -- Cross Campus Grid
The XCG or Cross-Campus Grid is a production grid maintained by the Genesis II team at the University of Virginia. Genesis II is a grid middleware stack designed with a "user's first" mentality. By building on familiar filesystem abstractions, Genesis II narrows the gap often seen between users and grid implementations. This demo will show how one can interact with the XCG for both compute and data grid functions using the Genesis II grid filesystem, both from a grid client approach and from a native operating system driver that mounts the grid. (POC: Mark Morgan, Andrew Grimshaw, University of Virginia)
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