RAIN: FutureGrid Dynamic provisioning Framework

Abstract

This project allows its users to use dynamic provisioning on the production cluster on india.

Intellectual Merit

The FG image management framework RAIN allows users to deploy images on VMs, and bare metal. If you like to try out this feature, please contact laszewski@gmail.com.

Broader Impact

The user is able to provision his own images in HPC. This is typically not allowed on other systems.

Use of FutureGrid

This service is first deployed on india

Scale Of Use

All of india could be provisioned.

Publications

Results

  1. [fg-1280] von Laszewski, G., J. Diaz, F. Wang, G. Fox, and A. J. Younge, RAIN: A system to Dynamically Generate & Provision Images on Bare Metal by Application Users, : ISC Cloud’11, Mannheim, Germany, 09/2011.
  2. [fg-1295] Diaz, J., G. von Laszewski, F. Wang, A. J. Younge, and G. C. Fox, "FutureGrid Image Repository: A Generic Catalog and Storage System for Heterogeneous Virtual Machine Images", Third IEEE International Conference on Coud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom2011), Athens, Greece, IEEE, 12/2011.
  3. [fg-1270] Diaz, J., G. von Laszewski, F. Wang, and A. J. Younge, Summary: Status of Image Management in FG, , 09/2011.
  4. [fg-1241] Fox, G. C., G. von Laszewski, and R. Fugueirdo, Overview of FutureGrid, , Salt Lake City, UT, Open Grid Forum 32, 07/2011.
FG-174
Gregor von Laszewski
Javier Diaz Montes
Indiana University
Active

Project Members

Fugang Wang
Javier Diaz Montes
Koji Tanaka
Sergey Blagodurov
Sharif Islam

Keywords

hpc, iaas, tool

Timeline

2 years 23 weeks ago