Resource provisioning for e-Science environments

Project Information

Discipline

Computer Science (401) 

Orientation

Research 

Recent works have proposed a number of models and tools to address the growing needs and expectations in the field of e-Science. In particular, they have shown the advantages and the feasibility of modeling e-Science environments and infrastructures according to the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). At the same time, the availability and models of use of networked computing resources needed by e-Science are rapidly changing and see the coexistence of many disparate paradigms: high performance computing, grid and recently cloud, which brings very promising expectations due to its high flexibility. Unfortunately, none of these paradigms is recognized as the ultimate solution, and a convergence of all of them should be pursued. In this project we wish to test a model to promote the convergence and the integration of different computing paradigms and infrastructures for the dynamic on-demand provisioning of the resources needed by e-Science environments, especially those developed according to SOA. In addition, such a model aims at endorsing a flexible, modular, workflow-based computing model for e-Science. A working implementation used to validate the proposed approach will be developed and tested using FutureGrid resources.

Promote the convergence and the integration of different computing paradigms and infrastructures for the dynamic on-demand provisioning of the resources needed by e-Science environments, especially those developed according to SOA. Endorse a flexible, modular, workflow-based computing model for e-Science.

Promote the usage of shared research and education infrastructure, including facilities and science and technology centers and engineering research centers. Contribute to computational models exploiting advanced computing resources and standardized open software tools. Develop activities that ensure that multi-user facilities are sites of research and mentoring for large numbers of science and engineering students.

Project Contact

Project Lead

Andrea Bosin (andbos) 

Project Manager

Andrea Bosin (andbos) 

Project Members

Giovanni Serra  

Resource Requirements

Hardware System

• I don't care (what I really need is a software environment and I don't care where it runs)

 

A working implementation used to validate the proposed project will be developed and tested using FutureGrid resources. In particular, IaaS cloud resources will be needed to run "custom" VM using Eucalyptus, Nimbus and OpenNebula/OpenStack (when available).

A few VMs (< 10) for a number of experiments, few hours of expected run time for each VM.

Project Timeline

Submitted

09/23/2011 - 07:20