Course: EEL-5934 Principle of Computer Systems Design Fall-13 Class Projects

Project Information

Discipline

Computer Science (401) 

Subdiscipline

11.01 Computer and Information Sciences, General 

Orientation

Education 

This project provides a platform for testing and evaluation of end-of-semester student group projects on the design and evaluation of distributed file systems and overlay networks. It is anticipated that 2-10 group projects will use FutureGrid. Students will use virtual machines deployed through IaaS; resource requirements consist of a handful of VMs per group.

This project provides students at the University of Florida with a realistic cloud testbed where they can experiment and evaluate designs that have been conceived as part of the class project. Students will be able to experiment with dynamically provisioned object storage software stacks (memcached) and overlay networks in order to test the functionality and evaluate performance of their designs.

The project provides hands-on opportunities for education and training on virtualized computer systems to graduate students enrolled in the course.

Project Contact

Project Lead

Renato Figueiredo (renato) 

Project Manager

Renato Figueiredo (renato) 

Project Members

Sivaram Muthusubramanian  

Resource Requirements

Hardware Systems

• india (IBM iDataPlex at IU)
• sierra (IBM iDataPlex at SDSC)

 

Students will use FutureGrid to configure and deploy virtual machines with their project's code. As this is intended to be a platform to develop proof-of-concept designs for a class project, it's not expected that software that others can use will be developed.

Few VMs (order of 10-20 concurrent instances when testing/experiments are taking place). The class project ends second week of December.

Project Timeline

Submitted

11/14/2013 - 09:26