Usage Report sierra

• Period: July 01 – July 31, 2013
• Hostname: sierra.futuregrid.org
• Services: nimbus, openstack, eucalyptus
• Metrics: VMs count, Users count, Wall time (hours), Distribution by wall time, project, project leader, and institution, and systems

Histogram

Summary (Monthly)

Figure 1: Average monthly usage data (wall time (hour), launched VMs, users)

This mixed chart represents average monthly usage as to wall time (hour), the number of VM instances and active users.

• Period: July 01 – July 31, 2013

• Cloud(IaaS): nimbus, openstack, eucalyptus

• Hostname: sierra

• Metric:

  • Runtime (Wall time hours): Sum of time elapsed from launch to termination of VM instances
  • Count (VM count): The number of launched VM instances
  • User count (Active): The number of users who launched VMs

Summary (Daily)

Figure 2: Users count

This time series chart represents daily active user count for cloud services and shows historical changes during the period.

• Period: July 01 – July 31, 2013
• Cloud(IaaS): nimbus, openstack, eucalyptus
• Hostname: sierra

Figure 3: VMs count

This time series chart represents the number of daily launched VM instances for cloud services and shows historical changes during the period.

• Period: July 01 – July 31, 2013
• Cloud(IaaS): nimbus, openstack, eucalyptus
• Hostname: sierra

Figure 4: Wall time (hours)

This time series chart represents daily wall time (hours) for cloud services and shows historical changes during the period.

• Period: July 01 – July 31, 2013
• Cloud(IaaS): nimbus, openstack, eucalyptus
• Hostname: sierra

Distribution

Figure 5: VM count by wall time

This chart illustrates usage patterns of VM instances in terms of running wall time.

• Period: July 01 – July 31, 2013
• Cloud(IaaS): nimbus, openstack, eucalyptus
• Hostname: sierra

Figure 6: VMs count by project

This chart illustrates the proportion of launched VM instances by project groups. The same data in tabular form follows.

• Period: July 01 – July 31, 2013
• Cloud(IaaS): nimbus, openstack, eucalyptus
• Hostname: sierra

VMs count by project

Project	Value
fg-52:Cost-Aware Cloud Computing	568
fg-40:Inca	241
fg-54:Investigating cloud computing as a solution for analyzing particle physics data	202
fg-224:Nimbus Auto Scale	196
fg-346:Course: Example Course On Advanced Cloud Computing	144
fg-214:Mining Interactions between Network Community Structure and Information Diffusion	95
fg-168:Next Generation Sequencing in the Cloud	43
fg-316:Course: Cloud Computing Class - third edition	33
fg-82:FG General Software Development	21
fg-97:FutureGrid and Grid‘5000 Collaboration	10
fg-1:Peer-to-peer overlay networks and applications in virtual networks and virtual clusters	7
fg-264:Course: 1st Workshop on bioKepler Tools and Its Applications	5
fg-356:IPython pipelines for training life sciences researchers on NGS data analysis	3
fg-298:FRIEDA: Flexible Robust Intelligent Elastic Data Management	3
fg-251:Course: Fall 2012 B534 Distributed Systems Graduate Course	3
fg-244:Course: Data Center Scale Computing	2
fg-314:User-friendly tools to play with cloud platforms	1

Figure 7: VMs count by project leader

This chart also illustrates the proportion of launched VM instances by project Leader. The same data in tabular form follows.

• Period: July 01 – July 31, 2013
• Cloud(IaaS): nimbus, openstack, eucalyptus
• Hostname: sierra

VMs count by project leader

Projectleader	Value
David Lowenthal	568
Shava Smallen	241
Randall Sobie	202
Pierre Riteau	196
Albert Elfstein	144
Yong-Yeol Ahn	95
Jonathan Klinginsmith	43
Massimo Canonico	34
Gregor von Laszewski	21
Mauricio Tsugawa	10
Renato Figueiredo	7
Ilkay Altintas	5
Lavanya Ramakrishnan	3
Todd Blevins	3
Judy Qiu	3
Dirk Grunwald	2

Figure 8: VMs count by institution

This chart illustrates the proportion of launched VM instances by Institution. The same data in tabular form follows.

• Period: July 01 – July 31, 2013
• Cloud(IaaS): nimbus, openstack, eucalyptus
• Hostname: sierra

VMs count by institution

Institution	Value
University of Arizona	568
UC San Diego	241
University of Victoria	202
University of Chicago	196
Indiana University	162
Indiana University, Computer Science Department	144
University of Piemonte Orientale, Computer Science Department	34
University of Florida	17
UCSD	5
Indiana University, Depts of Biology and Molecular and Cellular	3
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab	3
Univ. of Colorado	2

Figure 9: Wall time (hours) by project leader

This chart illustrates proportionate total run times by project leader.

• Period: July 01 – July 31, 2013
• Cloud(IaaS): nimbus, openstack, eucalyptus
• Hostname: sierra

System information

System information shows utilization distribution as to VMs count and wall time. Each cluster represents a compute node.

Figure 10: VMs count by systems (compute nodes) in Cluster (sierra)

This column chart represents VMs count among systems.

• Period: July 01 – July 31, 2013
• Cloud(IaaS): nimbus, openstack, eucalyptus
• Hostname: sierra

Figure 11: Wall time (hours) by systems (compute nodes) in Cluster (sierra)

This column chart represents wall time among systems.

• Period: July 01 – July 31, 2013
• Cloud(IaaS): nimbus, openstack, eucalyptus
• Hostname: sierra