Exploring VMs for Open Science Grid Services

Project Information

Discipline

Computer Science (401) 

Orientation

Research 

Open Science Grid (OSG) is a federation of compute and storage resources provided by of dozens of virtual organizations. This project will develop virtual machines to run the services required for the operation of the OSG. Currently, none of the compute elements used by OSG are virtual machines. The ability to develop these on a various platforms and hosts is the next step in the development of the OSG. Additionally, current existing OSG software may be adapted for use by FutureGrid

OSG has intellectual merit in its leadership in the practical application of high-throughput computing. OSG serves as the common point for software providers (such as Condor or glideinWMS) to see their middleware in production. OSG serves as a pool of expertise for developing and deploying future production-quality high-throughput applications.

OSG has broader impact in that it represents an important part of the computing landscape, in which it is important for us the US to keep presence. OSG believes other communities will become more and more dependent on these methods.

Project Contact

Project Lead

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Project Manager

Rob Quick (rquick) 

Project Members

Scott Teige, Soichi Hayashi  

Resource Requirements

Hardware Systems

• alamo (Dell optiplex at TACC)
• foxtrot (IBM iDataPlex at UF)
• hotel (IBM iDataPlex at U Chicago)
• india (IBM iDataPlex at IU)
• sierra (IBM iDataPlex at SDSC)
• xray (Cray XM5 at IU)
• Network Impairment Device

 

For development of OSG virtual machines, measurement of performance of OSG components and development of OSG software

We will typically use only a few virtual machines (most probably on india) at any given time. Short duration (about 1 day) scaling experiments up to, perhaps, 20 machines will be conducted.

Project Timeline

Submitted

01/13/2011 - 08:42