Usage Report sierra

• Period: December 01 – December 23, 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: December 01 – December 23, 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: December 01 – December 23, 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: December 01 – December 23, 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: December 01 – December 23, 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: December 01 – December 23, 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: December 01 – December 23, 2013
• Cloud(IaaS): nimbus, openstack, eucalyptus
• Hostname: sierra

VMs count by project

Project	Value
fg-174:RAIN: FutureGrid Dynamic provisioning Framework	373
fg-40:Inca	148
fg-355:Course: Data Center Scale Computing Class	43
fg-389:Investigating the Apache Big Data Stack	38
fg-54:Investigating cloud computing as a solution for analyzing particle physics data	37
fg-362:Course: Cloud Computing and Storage (UF)	27
fg-363:Course: Applied Cyberinfrastructure concepts	17
fg-214:Mining Interactions between Network Community Structure and Information Diffusion	15
fg-82:FG General Software Development	13
fg-374:Course: Cloud and Distributed Computing	10
fg-172:Cloud-TM	10
fg-298:FRIEDA: Flexible Robust Intelligent Elastic Data Management	9
fg-371:Characterizing Infrastructure Cloud Performance for Scientific Computing	7
fg-384:Graph/network analysis Resource manager	5
fg-175:GridProphet, A workflow execution time prediction system for the Grid	4
fg-367:Optimize rapid deployment and updating of VM images at the remote compute cluster	3
fg-1:Peer-to-peer overlay networks and applications in virtual networks and virtual clusters	3
fg-382:Reliability Analysis using Hadoop and MapReduce	3
fg-97:FutureGrid and Grid‘5000 Collaboration	3
fg-10:TeraGrid XD TIS(Technology Insertion Service) Technology Evaluation Laboratory	3
fg-372:Mobile Device Computation Offloading over SocialVPNs	3
fg-168:Next Generation Sequencing in the Cloud	2
fg-264:Course: 1st Workshop on bioKepler Tools and Its Applications	2
fg-233:CINET - A Cyber-Infrastructure for Network Science	1
fg-340:Research: Parallel Computing for Machine Learning	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: December 01 – December 23, 2013
• Cloud(IaaS): nimbus, openstack, eucalyptus
• Hostname: sierra

VMs count by project leader

Projectleader	Value
Gregor von Laszewski	386
Shava Smallen	148
Dirk Grunwald	43
ibrahim hallac	38
Randall Sobie	37
Andy Li	27
Nirav Merchant	17
Yong-Yeol Ahn	15
Philip Rhodes	10
Paolo Romano	10
Lavanya Ramakrishnan	9
Theron Voran	7
Renato Figueiredo	6
Tirtha Bhattacharjee	5
Thomas Fahringer	4
John Lockman	3
Jan Balewski	3
Carl Walasek	3
Mauricio Tsugawa	3
Ilkay Altintas	2
Jonathan Klinginsmith	2
Keith Bisset	1
Wilson Rivera	1

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: December 01 – December 23, 2013
• Cloud(IaaS): nimbus, openstack, eucalyptus
• Hostname: sierra

VMs count by institution

Institution	Value
Indiana University	403
UC San Diego	148
Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, Computer Science	43
Firat University, Computer Science Department	38
University of Victoria	37
University of Florida, Department of Electrical and Computer Eng	27
University of Arizona, Arizona Research Laboratories, School of	17
University of Mississippi, Department of Computer Science	10
INESC ID	10
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab	9
University of Colorado at Boulder, Computer Science Department	7
University of Florida	6
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Polytechnic Institut	5
University of Innsbruck	4
University of Texas at Austin	3
University of Florida, Electrical and Computer Engineering	3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laboratory for Nuclear Sc	3
University of the Sciences , Mathematics, Physics, and Statistic	3
UCSD	2
University of Puerto Rico, Electrical and Computer Emgineering D	1
Virginia Tech	1

Figure 9: Wall time (hours) by project leader

This chart illustrates proportionate total run times by project leader.

• Period: December 01 – December 23, 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: December 01 – December 23, 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: December 01 – December 23, 2013
• Cloud(IaaS): nimbus, openstack, eucalyptus
• Hostname: sierra