REU: FutureGrid Introduction

Project Information

Discipline
Computer Science (401) 
Orientation
Education 
Abstract

This project/class serves to provide an overview of FutureGrid capabilities to a group of NSF REU students.

Intellectual Merit

The project/class will provide the NSF REU students with an understanding of the uses of FutureGrid and similar other cloud computing services.

Broader Impacts

Encourage students to use FutureGrid and inculcate an interest in Cloud computing technologies.

Project Contact

Project Lead
Mohammed Rangwala (mmrangwala) 
Project Manager
Mohammed Rangwala (mmrangwala) 
Project Members
Cameron Farnsley, Cynthia Franklin, Sedinam Gadzekpo, Alyxandria Henry, Eric Lovelace, Austin Miller, Gwendolyn Tennell, Ryan Wu, Wei Peng, Blake Howell  

Resource Requirements

Hardware Systems
  • hotel (IBM iDataPlex at U Chicago)
  • india (IBM iDataPlex at IU)
  • sierra (IBM iDataPlex at SDSC)
 
Use of FutureGrid

To briefly explain the capabilities of FutureGrid by demonstrating the use of virtual machines on Hotel and virtual clusters on Sierra.

Scale of Use

Need systems to demonstrate experiments everyday for 8 hours everyday for 10 weeks.

Project Timeline

Submitted
05/29/2013 - 23:30 
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