Nimbus Auto Scale (Phantom)

Project Information

Discipline
Computer Science (401) 
Orientation
Research 
Abstract

In this project we will be creating software that provides VM scaling services to the scientific community.

Intellectual Merit

Discover best practices for highly scalable embarassingly parallel applications using backfill VM techniques.

Broader Impacts

This has the potential to change how cloud computing is presented to scientists of non-computational disciplines (biology, physics, etc).

Project Contact

Project Lead
Pierre Riteau (priteau) 
Project Manager
Kate Keahey (keahey) 
Project Members
Kate Keahey, Tonglin Li, Umesh Deshpande, Wei Tang, Ismael Cuadrado Cordero, Lavanya Ramakrishnan  

Resource Requirements

Hardware Systems
  • alamo (Dell optiplex at TACC)
  • foxtrot (IBM iDataPlex at UF)
  • hotel (IBM iDataPlex at U Chicago)
  • india (IBM iDataPlex at IU)
  • sierra (IBM iDataPlex at SDSC)
 
Use of FutureGrid

I intend to use the FutureGrid Nimbus and OpenStack clouds.

Scale of Use

between 4 and 100 cores depending on the experiment in question

Project Timeline

Submitted
06/05/2012 - 12:30 
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