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Art Vandenberg

Account ManagerCustomer Relations/Research

Cloud Computingat Georgia State University

CSc 4998September 14, 2011

Georgia State University

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Georgia State Strategic Plan http://www.gsu.edu/strategicplan/

President BeckerPlan adopted Jan 2011

• Goal 1: Become a national model for undergraduate… demonstrating that students from all backgrounds can achieve academic and career success

• Goal 2: Significantly strengthen and grow the base of distinctive graduate and professional programs

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Georgia State Strategic Plan

• Goal 3: Become a leading public research university addressing the most challenging issues of the 21st century.

• Goal 4: Be a leader in understanding the complex challenges of cities and developing effective solutions.

• Goal 5: Achieve distinction in globalizing the University.

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Cloud Computing for Students• Dr. Yi Pan, computer science, is working with Information

Systems & Technology on cloud computing solutions for campus. http://www.gsu.edu/news/46617.html

• Open source Virtual Computing Lab is improving student computing options. https://cwiki.apache.org/VCL/

• Instead sitting in a computer lab, students can request "images” via a browser - from anywhere.

• MATLAB, SAS, SPSS, Maple… - is available “in the cloud”

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Selecting Matlab2010a (or other options) using my browser…

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VCL Cloud advantages

• Not just student impact (software available that students did not have before, convenience of working from anywhere,

anytime)• But also lab

impact (images, HW costs, SW costs, complexity,

turnaround time)• AND, it can be

faster!

Initial results with Matlab indicate that VCL performs better than a standalone laptop (Lenovo Thinkpad, Intel Core 2 Duo, 1.9GHz, 2GB RAM)

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VCL as a way to address costs -Hardware/Software Cost Cycles: Requested vs. Funded

• Ref: An Analysis of Full Cost Student Computing Labs and Potential for Virtual Computing Options, M. L. Russell, A. Vandenberg and N. Xiong, Poster, 3rd International Conference on the Virtual Computing Initiative, October 22-23, 2009, Research Triangle Park, NC.

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VCL Architecture

• https://cwiki.apache.org/VCL/

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Small VCL Configuration

ESM

ESM

OPM

MM

1 BladeCenter E chassish 2 Ethernet Switch Modules (BNT Layer

2/3 copper)h Power supplies 3&4 (for 7 or more

blades)h Chassis network module to connect

management node to storage– Fiber Channel - Optical pass through – iSCSI - Copper pass through

2-14 HSxy Bladesh At least one blade configured to attach

to external storage for Image Library (FC, iSCSI, …)

h Server for scheduler, database, and management node

h Server(s) to deliver VCL services Storage for Images

h FC or iSCSI storage array (few TB)

Three NetworksPublic, Private, ManagementIntelligent Images, Security

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Scaling VCL

GigE Switch

GigE Switch

Public Network

GigE Switch

Private Management Network Private Network

Network switch Cisco 6509e (or equivalent

in your favorite network vendor flavor)

3 separate networks + VLANsh Network connected to

Internet for user accessh Private Network connected to

VCL management node (for loading and managing images)

h Private Management network (connecting BladeCenter Management Modules and VCL management node - controls power on/off, reboot, …)

VCL Management nodesh One management node for

every ~100 bladesh Physical connection to storage

array - shared file system (GFS, GPFS) for multiple management nodes at one site

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IBM Cloud AcademyIBM Cloud Academy - GSU one of inaugural members Nov 2009http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28749.wss

Initial membership from 16 institutions (K-12, Higher Ed) world-wide - "We are very pleased to be a founding member of this innovative initiative that will

bring on-demand computing resources to all Georgia State students," said J. L. Albert, GSU's Associate Provost, CIO

The mission… provide an organization for K-12 schools and higher education institutions… actively integrating cloud technologies into their infrastructures… to share best practices… and to collaborate with partners to create innovative cloud technologies and models.

IBM Cloud Academy Goals - Forum for exchange of best practices - Access to emerging cloud technology R&D from IBM & partners - Repositories for cloud computing curriculum, tools, resources - Foster pilot projects and collaboration - Disseminate insights, metrics, benefits of cloud computing

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Virtual Computing LabVCL installed on IBM iDataPlex - cost effective solution

Students evaluated virtual computing options Jan-Mar 2009 - recommended VCL, iDataplex option

- effective use of student tech fee funding

Acquired iDataPlex October 2009- dx340, 84 nodes (672 cores, 2GB/core)- Power, UPS, HVAC completed Dec 2009

First images January 2010 - config: ESXi for provisioning, LDAP, Antivirus…

Demo accounts released April 2010- image: Windows XP, browser, MS Office+app

Pilot Production accounts released August 2010- base image: 1GB RAM, Windows XP + (MS Office; Matlab, Maple, etc.)

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Virtual Computing LabCloud Colloquium, August 30, 2010

Computer Science, Departmental Colloquium- Dr. Andy Rindos, IBM Research, RTP Center for Advanced Studies (CAS), Raleigh, NC- Dr. Bill Robinson, CIS - Windows XP image with IBM Rational Products

Opportunities for collaboration with IBM around cloud computing, including a review of VCL-based education cloud activities around the world.- Dr. Yi Pan, IBM Faculty Award ($24K)

- Potential University Delivery Services (students support/supporting VCL)

Outcome of Colloquium - Demand queue for images:- Dr. Andrey Shilnikov, Neuroscience - Matlab, dynamical systems- Tim Olsen, PhD student - images for process improvement- Dr. Robert Clewley, Neuroscience - Python based environment- Dr. Dave McDonald, CIS - upper level database design courses- Dr. Michael Weeks, CS – programming in Linux/Matlab environment

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Technical details of our VCLHigh level summary of experience July 2010…

RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 for iDataPlex management node - ESXi for compute nodes provisioning

- free!- enables multiple virtual machines per single node/hypervisor

(vs. xCAT provisioning of complete node)

Virtualized the head node- avoids “burning” whole node as head node- flexibility for head nodes (devl, test/QA, prod…)

Perhaps Might Have: - configured iDataPlex dx360, not 340 (for remote system administration)

- reversed fast disk on compute nodes & GigE connection via switch

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Other technical notesYour experience may vary…

ESXi v.3 - newer version “broke” VCL code - ESXi doesn’t support Windows 7, so using Windows XP

- ESXi v.3 no longer generally available- hope to resolve

Antivirus software may not work well with clones…- McAfee, for instance, refuses to update a virtual image that is - invoked with out-of-synch time-stamp.- We’re use MS Security Essentials

Multimedia experience may be limited - Ericom’s BLAZE (http://www.ericom.com/) being tested by GMU

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A Faculty teaching perspective…

Dr. Predrag Punosevac, GSU Mathematics & Statistics

On Jan 27, 2010, at 12:04 AM, Predrag Punosevac wrote:Dear Art,

This is so COOL! I was just using Windows 2003 image in the full screen mode over RDP (rdesktop) on my PIII laptop 700 MHz and 128 MB of RAM which is running OpenBSD 4.5.

The session was so snappy, I could not believe my eyes. It is faster then DeLL workstation in my office with Core 2 duo and 4 GB of RAM.…

Predrag

P.S. I am like kid now :-)

I will now play with RedHat images.

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Another Faculty perspective…

Dr. William Robinson, GSU Computer Information Systems

On Sep 30, 2010, at 11:53 AM, William Robinson wrote:Kelly,

I’m concerned about the vcl. I just now reserved and ran an image. It took about 3 minutes to get the reservation. Then, I tried to connect. It failed until about 10 minutes later. Then, everything was fine.

This was after all the students had left.

I’m concerned that:- Its too slow- Cannot handle 20 students- Unreliable

I have to make other plans. I’ve contacted IBM about their cloud and will start restart our CIS vcl.

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An Engineering perspectiveIS&T Managing Technology Engineer’s feedback – November 2010

1) VCL is not a turnkey product.

There is not a clean definition of what is code vs. configuration, there is not a clean path for defining what you would need to customize. Most commercial software would document a few different install options based on how you were going to use the software, and have some descriptions of what those configuration require in order to function.

2) VCL software is not designed to keep a good separation between users and infrastructure.

For example the VM that the user is given access to has two network interfaces, one of which is on a network that has infrastructure components (ESXi management interface on it).

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An Engineering perspective…

Your experience may vary…

3) iDataPlex network switches are a black box set of switches.

…Even IBM has a hard time making them do more advanced configurations. This makes debugging of issues that might involve the network extremely difficult, even if you have support from IBM.

4) iDataPlex is built around xcat.

…But xcat doesn't (or at least IBM install engineer could not) get it to deploy ESXi.

5) We did KVM on the head node.

…Which is helpful for allowing you to get a production and development system running on the same physical hardware, but this to adds a layer of complexity that IBM has a hard time offering support, especially if KVM, XCAT and the network switches all need to be looked at while trouble shooting a problem.

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An Engineering perspectiveThe short answer…

The short answer is our implementation is going VERY slowly, and consuming a LOT of time.

We will eventually get it working, but if you factor in cost of staff time, we would have been much better off selecting a commercial product. A commercial product would have been in production sooner, cost us less, and in the long run be more maintainable, especially should we face any staff turn over issues in the future.

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My (Art Vandenberg) perspectiveThe short answer…

Disruptive technologies are that.We need to understand that production, research, teaching have different perspectives.

We need to work together on solutions (what is taking me forever may be easy for you to solve…)

The future is not built by doing the same thing as today

Update September 2011As part of VCL Office hours, we alerted NCSU developers to our performance issues

IBM, VCL developers conf called with GSU technical – recommended steps to take

VCL 2.2.1 inplemented

And by the way, our experience was similar to that of VCL Bootcamp performance

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Pop quiz: If NCSU has 1000-2000 blades across multiple racks and GSU has 84 blades in one rack, would there be different performance?

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IBM Cloud Academyan overview and timeline

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The mission of the IBM® Cloud Academy is to provide an organization for K-12 schools and higher education institutions who

are actively integrating cloud technologies into their infrastructures to share best practices in the use of clouds and to collaborate with

partners to create innovative cloud technologies and models.

IBM and education: collaborating for innovation

IBM Cloud Academy

From IBM Cloud Academy charter as developed by initial member institutions, 1Q 2010

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Integrate

Cloud Services and Technologies

Implement solutions for education based on IBM world-class cloud services and

technology, accelerating the transformation to a Smarter Planet™

Collaborate

with peers, researchers and developers

Work with colleagues from around the globe in a cloud-based collaboration forum to share best practices, ideas,

and insights

Innovate Cloud services and technologies

Participate in the definition of emerging cloud technologies and implementations with IBM researchers, developers and Business Partners

Three Functions of the IBM Cloud Academy

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What are the goals of the IBM Cloud Academy?

• Exchange of best practices – Accelerate deployment of successful models

• Access to emerging technologies – Gain insight from IBM developers and research

• Creation of a repository – Provide curriculum, tools and resources

• Support for pilot and collaborative projects – Evaluate technical, financial and service qualities

• Dissemination our findings– Document experiences, performance metrics, and benefits

IBM Cloud Academy Charter, 1Q 2010

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Membership qualifications criteria and responsibilities

– Integrate IBM cloud computing technologies and solutions into institutional infrastructure

– Institutional-level commitment to participle over a multi-year membership

– Commitment to collaborative projects and initiatives

– Engage. Use cloud computing technologies and solutions

– Participate. Share insights, lessons learned and experiences members and the broader education community.

– Advance. Contribute to or lead strategic projects

– Influence. Provide IBM with feedback on cloud computing solutions and offerings

IBM Cloud Academy Charter, 1Q 2010

Membership participation qualifications

Member responsibilities

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Membership benefits• Community Access. Access to a support community that is changing local IT culture by

embracing cloud computing.

• Knowledge Sharing. Thought leaders and technical experts with knowledge of proven cloud computing technologies and solutions.

• Project Support. Technical and business case examples, benchmarking data and access to resources that support cloud computing projects.

• Project Funding. Funding opportunities for cloud computing projects and research that are competitively awarded

• Resources. Strategies to use cloud computing to transform education and research in K-12 and higher education globally.

• Headlights: Trends in K-12 and higher education globally as relates to the move to cloud computing models and approaches.

IBM Cloud Academy Charter, 1Q 2010

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Collaboratory used for IBM Cloud Academy member projects

• Collaboratory– Members from around the globe work together using IBM LotusLive™ cloud

services with web conferencing, social networking and collaboration tools

• Collaborative themes • Selected by the IBM Cloud Academy governing board

– 2010 focus themes: • Enhancing research computing using cloud computing• Delivering educational resources with a cloud • Building the institution’s future infrastructure and roadmap with cloud

• IBM technical community support– Initiatives supported by a technical board comprised of IBM researchers,

architects, developers and members of the IBM Academy of Technology specializing in cloud computing

IBM Cloud Academy’s first white paper illustrates a statewide approach:“The Transformation of Education through State Education Clouds”

OC12 (622 Mbps Cicruit)

OC48 (2.4 Gbps Circuit)

DWDM (10 Gbps Ethernet)

WFU

North Carolina Virtual Computing Lab / VCL cloud featuredProduction/pilots/users also present within:NC Community College SystemNC K-12

NCA&T

Research

Production/Pilots/Users

Interest/Plans

Available on IBM Cloud Academy website: http://www.ibm.com/solutions/education/cloudacademy/us/en/

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K-12 and higher edsuccess storiesalso available

on website

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IBM SmartCloud for Educationofferings to get started

Education Workloads

LotusLive!

Life-cycle and service

management

Analytics

CollaborationDevelopment

and test

Desktop and

devices

Infrastructurestorage

Infrastructurecompute

Businessprocesse

s

Educationsolutions

IBM SPSS®Decision Management

for Education

IBM SmartCloud Enterprise

IBM BladeCenter® Foundation for Cloud

IBM SmartDesktop Cloud

IBM Smart Business Storage Cloud

*Note: Only key offerings mentioned, many more

available

Turn information into insights

Increase agility

Connect and empower

people

Drive Effectiveness & Efficiency

Offerings on IBM SmartCloud

IBM ‘For Cloud’ (private)Enabling Technologies

IBM Tivoli®Provisioning Manager

Virtual Computing Lab

Cast IronCloud Integration

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IBM Cloud Academy member locations globally (growing each month)

HanoiVietnam

Silicon ValleyCalifornia

DublinIreland

São PauloBrazil Johannesburg

South Africa

BangaloreIndia

TokyoJapan

IBM Cloud Labs

SeoulS. Korea

BeijingChina

IBM Cloud Academy Members

ibm.com/solutions/education/cloudacademy

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It is a new IT consumption and delivery model well suited for colleges, universities and K-12 schools

Is cloud computing really all that new? Yes and no.

Centralized Computing

Client-Server

Virtualization

Internet

Cloud is a derivative of what we have done in the past,

and is enabled by a convergence of maturing technologies

Cloud computing

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“Cloud-onomics”: Why education is looking to the cloud

CLOUD COMPUTING

= OPTIMIZED

SERVICES=AGILITY + BUSINESS

AND IT ALIGNMENT +SERVICE

FLEXIBILITYINDUSTRY

STANDARDS+

=REDUC

EDCOSTS

….makes use of virtualization, standardization and automation to free up operational budget for new investment

=VIRTUALIZATION + ENERGY EFFICIENCY +STANDARDIZATION

AUTOMATIONAND SELF SERVICE+

…allowing you to optimize new investments for direct business benefits

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Cloud computing helps move beyond organizational silos

With cloud computingWithout cloud computing

Virtualized resources Automated deployment

of IT resources Standardized services

Location-independent

Rapid scalability Self-service

• Software• Hardware

• Storage• Networking

• Software• Hardware• Storage• Networking

• Software• Hardware• Storage• Networking

Universities, for example, can be the innovation centers within Smarter Cities™; associated business incubator & entrepreneurship parks for job & business creation

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There is a spectrum of deployment options for cloud computing

Third-partyoperated

Third-party hosted and operated

Client data center

Client data center

Private cloud Hosted private cloud

Managed private cloud

Client

Shared cloud services

Client A Client B

Public cloud services

A

Users

B

Internal/Private PublicHybridIT capabilities are provided “as a service,” over an intranet, within the client and behind the firewall

Internal and external service delivery

methods are integrated

IT activities / functions are

provided “as a service” over the

Internet

64%

30%Public

Private

Note: Not all workloads will move to cloud!

Source: IBM Market Insights, Cloud Computing Research, July 2009. n=1,090

Cloud workload preference

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Cloud computing benefits in education

Students:

Raises computing resource accessibility, even in underserved districts

Increases availability and integrity of data, applications and research materials

Adds mobility

Reduces client application and system resource footprint

Amplifies application and computing performance

Improves server and data storage capacity

Offers convenient web access

Faculty:

• Grants accessibility to virtual machines

• Schedules delivery of assignment instructions, study materials, syllabi or software

• Enables faculty to create custom images for specific course, independent of (and not conflicting with) other faculty course images

• Unites departments and campuses to eliminate information silos to deliver comprehensive educations

Administration:

Standardizes applications and processes

Provisions software, resources and management of data

Lightens the burden of software version control

Reduces total cost of ownership (TCO)

Lowers the need for in-house IT staff

Cuts resource management costs including power and cooling

Raises server utilization and software licenses, reducing purchasing requirements

Brings greater virtualization

Optimizes resource allocation

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Preliminary Results of the Survey for Collaborative Themes

IBM Cloud Academy Collaborative Themes Votes

Research computing models using clouds 5Delivering educational resources via a cloud 4Analytics and business intelligence on the cloud 3Building the institution's future infrastructure 1Roadmap for adoption and integration into current infrastructure 1Security, identify, trust and privacy on clouds 1Enhancing accessibility through cloud services 0Financial impact and benefits of cloud computing 0Impact on learning and teaching of cloud computing 0Impact on learning and teaching of cloud computing 0Open Standards for cloud computing 0Web 2.0 for improved collaboration using cloud services 0

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April 8, 2010

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Cloud Computing Seminar April 22-23 Preliminary Agenda: Thursday, April 22nd

9:00 - 9:10 AM Welcome 9:10 - 10:00 AM NC Education Cloud & Virtual Computing Lab (VCL) Apache Project - Mladen Vouk, NC State Assoc. V. Provost IT & CSC Dept. Head, Aaron Peeler, Program Manager Advanced Academic Computing Initiatives, et al. 10:00 - 10:25 AM The VA VCL and Cloud Computing at George Mason University - Sharon Pitt, GMU Executive Director of the Division for Instructional Tech. & John Savage, GMU Director Advanced Academic Computing 10:25 - 10:45 AM Cloud Computing at VA Tech and K-12 Outreach - 10:45 - 11:00 AM Break 11:00 - 11:20 AM Cloud Computing at Georgia State University - Art Vanderberg, GSU Director Advanced Campus Services, & Kelly Robinson 11:20 - 11:40 AM Cloud Computing within the University System of Maryland (incl. UMBC) - Yelena Yesha, Co-director, Multicore Computational Center (UMBC) 11:40 AM - noon The HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) Cloud - Ramon Harris, Director, Tech. Transfer Project (Exec. Leadership Council) noon - 1:00 PM Lunch, discussion 1:00 - 1:45 PM The IBM Cloud Academy Program - Patty Sullivan (IBM WW Education) 1:45 - 2:15 PM Global University Programs and Cloud Computing –

JoAnn Washam Winson (IBM GUP 2:15 - 2:45 PM The IBM University Delivery Services (UDS) Program –

Alex Harvilchuck (IBM GBS) 2:45 - 3:00 PM Break 3:00 - 3:45 PM IBM Hardware Solutions for Cloud Computing - Dave Doria (IBM STG) 3:45 - 4:30 PM IBM Tivoli Cloud Computing Products - Pratik Gupta (IBM SWG) 4:30 - 5:15 PM IBM Services Solutions for Cloud Computing - Jack Santoni (IBM GTS) 5:15 - 5: 30 PM The IBM WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance - Andy Rindos (IBM SWG) 5:30 - 5:40 PM Wrap-up Friday, April 23rd 9:00 - 10:00 AM IBM Research Cloud Computing Activities (incl. Research Compute Cloud) 10:00 AM - noon Additional education presentations and follow-up discussions noon - 12:30 PM Wrap-up and end of seminar

Friday, April 23rd (further update on call)

IBM Research Cloud Computing Activities (including the Research Compute Cloud)

Additional education presentations and follow-up discussions

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May 6, 2010

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Binghamton University – SUNY (April 22 - 23)

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• IBM philanthropic endeavor• Launched: November 2004• Donates massive compute power to

projects solving humanitarian and world problems using grid technology

• Public donates spare PC cycles• Direct results to public domain• Grow membership for multiple

projects – leverage recruitment effort

Over 342,000 CPU years 300 cpu years in typical weekday 1.52 million devices 509,000 members

Over 100,000 IBM employees 222 countries

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How it works

• Member joins – Register at web site WCGRID.ORG– Download software– Install software

• Agent asks for work• Device processes work at

lowest CPU priority• Device contacts the servers• Repeat…

World Community GridServers

Returns computed results

Gets new work unit

Don’t have to leave computer on 24/7…. Just use it as you normally would“BOINC” software Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing

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What research is being run on World Community Grid

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Typical Project

• Large computing problem is split into millions of smaller independent runs

• Donor machines around the world request those work units from our servers

• The machines return their results after they have processed them

• Servers assemble pieces of the answers to produce the final results of the research project

• Direct results made available in the public domain

Input

Output

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And it is GREEN

• We don’t ask people to leave computers on 24/7, just use them as they normally would

• Default CPU use set to 60% to limit extra energy consumption• Checkpointing to not lose results computed so far• Can limit further with custom settings

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50

50% 100%

CPU utilization

Watts

Thinkpad T42p power consumption

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Running on a Cloud

• Cloud runs virtual images of production work• Hardware supports virtual images• Run World Community Grid at lowest priority on hardware not fully

utilized by production work VS. Run as a virtual image

VMVM

VMVM

VMVM

VMVM

VMVM

VM

VM VM

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World Community Grid assumes the burden of running the grid

• Security work• Grid enabling new projects• Importing research data• Creating work units• Scheduling work units• Voting on results• Combining results• Backups• Results to researchers• Monitoring disk space• Checking errant devices• Problem work units• Helping the scheduler• Web site modifications• Forum monitoring• Support emails• Soliciting new research• Beta testing• System updates / upgrades• Audits

Georgia State University has been a World Community Grid Partner since July 2007!http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/

GSU team contributes to a dozen different such projects (over 44 years of compute total) and we are ranked overall as #781 out of 27,061 teams.

Join GSU team: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/reg/viewRegister.do And then search for and select GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY team.

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Participants in ICA-sponsored are encouraged to become contributors to the VCL Apache incubator project http://incubator.apache.org/projects/vcl.html – The Apache ICLA (Individual Contributor License Agreement) that should be filled out

can be found at: http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt The VCL code base consists of

– (a) a PhP-based GUI front-end (currently using the Apache web server) – (b) a PERL-based back-end management daemon, and – (c) a database (with defined/input metadata) through which front- and back-ends

intercommunicate – currently MySQL. Some immediate project opportunities around the VCL code base include:

– Extending VCL database support (beyond just the current MySQL)• Code changes to (a) & (b) above have been made allowing VCL to use Derby or DB2.• A general approach has been to integrate other DBs, e,g., Informix, Oracle.

– Extending VCL native hypervisor support • VCL currently directly supports various flavors of VMware, with a module providing

KVM support under test• Other native hypervisor support needs to be developed, e.g., for XEN.

– Extending VCL deployment modules beyond xCAT• A module allowing VCL deployment using TPMfOSD is almost complete• A module integrating IBM Director with VCL, allowing deployment of Virtual

Systems Pools has been completed, with opportunities to further extend that work.

ICA Infrastructure Projects around VCL

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ICA Infrastructure Projects around VCL (cont.)

– Extending VCL web server support (e.g., to accommodate IHS, sMash, etc.)– Extending VCL to interoperate with/access resources from other public or private clouds.

• VCL can currently access mainframe LUs from the Marist College mainframe supporting the IBM System z Academic Initiative

• Other clouds/cloud stacks with which VCL could interoperate include through the development of appropriate (PERL) modules include: IBM CCMP, IBM TSAM, Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure, Eucalyptus, OpenNebula, etc.

– Extending the security and access management capabilities of VCL• Engagement in the NC State sponsored SOSI (Secure Open Systems Initiative) project• Enabling VCL private VLAN support

– Integrating image management technologies/solutions into VCL• Also exploring image repository technologies through projects like Olive.org

– Providing additional metering and charge back capabilities to VCL– Integrating more analytics into VCL management

• For example, developing smarter pre-provisioning algorithms beyond last used – Extending VCL hardware platform support (especially for high-end HPC platforms)– Extending degree of VCL virtualization support– Extending VCL real-time and rendering application support

• Exploration of NoMachine etc. protocols, user-side applets, etc.

Andy

HBCU Cloud

GA Education Cloud

NC Education Cloud

MD Education Cloud

SC Education Cloud

VA Education Cloud

HBCU

HBCU

HBCU

HBCU

HBCU

Southern State Education Cloud Consortium

Opportunity: GSU as nucleus of GaCloud?

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http://vss.umwblogs.org/

Sharon

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Ramon

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• Welcome to Dr. Jerzy Kotowski – President of Cloud Committee at the University

• First university cloud computing center in Poland– http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/32

226.wss– Cloud-focused courses to more than 1,500 students– Started with 500 students over the summer

ICA Welcomes: WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGYChris B

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• Welcome to Dr. Omar Al-Jarrah – Vice President and CIO will be JUST’s liason to the IBM Cloud Academy

• New Center of Excellence for Service Science Innovation based on Cloud– http://www.just.edu.jo/News/Lists/Activities/display.aspx?List=525a663d-304f-442

0-a708-6adc93023c93&ID=102&RootFolder=%2FNews%2FLists%2FActivities

– IBM CloudBurst 2.1 environment to nurture Service Science Innovation– Will deliver teaching resources & technology expertise to students via cloud,

including• Developing new curricula on key technology areas such as Service Oriented

Architecture (SOA), Business Processes Management (BPM), Business Analytics, Business Processes Optimization (BPO), Service Science and Cloud Computing.

ICA Welcomes: Jordan University of Science and Technology

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Özyegin University• A new non-profit university located in Istanbul, Turkey

– Focused on becoming an entrepreneurial research university– New departments and Research centers are being added– The student body is growing almost exponentially– Every registered student is given a laptop/netbook– Classroom teaching is coupled with online CMS (Moodle)– Student emails are maintained at Google

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The Goals• Integrate Cloud Computing into curriculum • Encourage use of Cloud Computing in academia• Help faculty to easily adopt emerging technologies• Enable online/offline computer-based exams with 100s of

students• Enable E-science and E-engineering

“Ozyegin University has become a very critical and preferred partner for IBM Cloud Academy in Turkey, especially for the development of Cloud-based and traditional E-education curriculum. Distinguished research and academic capability of the university is unique and promises a bright future for high quality education in Turkey.” Jale AkyelIBM University Relations Leader, Central Eastern Europe and Turkey

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The Challenges

• Adopting state-of-the-art, but fast-changing technologies– Many courses have accompanying lab sessions– The speed of change in technology puts pressure on the physical

infrastructures including the IT infrastructures– E-engineering and E-science are evaluated as feasible alternatives

• Reduce IT-related burden on faculty & Reduce software-maintenance burden on IT

– Engineering software can be hard to install & maintain– IT staff cannot deal with the support of all software from different

engineering disciplines (faculty either too busy or not tech-savvy)– Cloud-based software support customized for specific courses and

maintained elsewhere will be helpful

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The Solution• Apache Virtual Computing Lab (VCL) and similar others

– Being tested over IBM servers to dynamically grant researchers and instructors access to computational resources and revoke these resources when not needed

• E-Engineering platform services developed as part of the Cloud@Özyeğin initiative.– Finite element analysis (FEA) cloud service – Data mining & modeling service for collaborative analytics– Complex event processing service– IaaS configurations

• Virtual MPI and Hadoop clusters

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The Progress– Research:

• Implementing a cloud-based FEA service to be used for HPC research and teaching in several engineering departments.

– Teaching: • Combination of USB-bootable operating systems (OS) with cloud applications

to deliver custom-designed and network-controlled applications (labs and exams) to hundreds of students simultaneously

– Collaboration: • Testing Drupal and Liferay as front-end portals to our services• Installation and testing of IBM LotusLive/LotusQuickr™® suites is in progress to

bring together members of IBM Cloud Academy in Turkey

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Trends in Virtual Classrooms

• Ubiquitous Mobile Devices – Challenging the traditional virtual classroom platforms to move into mobile device platforms.

• Research Collaboration - Virtual Classrooms are facilitating research and grant proposals among faculty and graduate students.

• Easy Data Reporting - Pressure from administration and school officials for success metrics and data are accelerating the use of virtual classroom platforms because of their built in analytics.

• New Teaching Models – Breakout rooms, micro-lectures, collaborative class projects, etc. are enabling creative teaching methods. Distinct move from “sage on the stage” to collaborative teaching environment.

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Biweekly birds-of-a-feather calls for the community of VCL users. Proposed title: “VCL Virtual Office”.– Each week, a VCL community member will discuss a defined VCL issue or topic (technical

tutorial, suggested best practices, user experiences, etc.) – followed by an open discussion period, where members can discuss problems they are facing, joint projects they would like to launch, etc.

– If you would like to participate, please send me an email with your availability to rindos@us.ibm.com

– Feel free to provide a VCL issue or topic that you would like to discuss on these calls. We are soliciting volunteers for the first few presentations slots.

Once again, for those interested in VCL, you can:– Install the open source VCL cloud computing code. All material can be found at

http://incubator.apache.org/vcl/• Installation documents: https://cwiki.apache.org/VCL/vcl-installation.html

Participants who wish to contribute code changes will need to join the VCL Apache incubator project at http://incubator.apache.org/projects/vcl.html

• The Apache ICLA (Individual Contributor License Agreement) that should be filled out can be found at: http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt

ICA Infrastructure Projects around VCL (Virtual Computing Lab)

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Development & Research Work on “HPC-as-a-Service” Model Son Huynh

HPC Infrastructure

Virtual Private Clusters (Virtual) Production Cluster

Maya

Virtual Compute Nodes

Moab

Compute Nodes

LoadLever

ADM Private Cluster

InfinibandiDataplex GPFS

Compute Nodes

Power UsersSchool Admin

Request virtual private clusters

Normal Users

Submit Jobs

HPC Center Admin

Approve requests

Virtualized InfrastructureVirtual Nodes, Virtual Private Clusters, Virtual Networks

Cloud Management Platform

HPC Cloud PortalSubmit Jobs

Cloud API

Moab API

HPC Cloud API

Visualization

Hadoop App.’s

Weather Modeling

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MANAGING HPC COMPLEXITY

WITH CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE:

• Performance & Utilization

• On-Demand Resource Deployment

• Self-Service Web Access

• Automation Workflow

• Capacity Planning

• Dynamic Scalability

• Network Partitioning

(Multi-tenancy)

• Monitoring & Tracking

• Usage Accounting

• Centralized User

Management & Security

School Faculty & Students

Research Community

Cloud ServiceProvider (CSP)(IT/Data Center)

Seismic Modeling

Portfolio Trading Analytics

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Research Collaboration on Cloud Son Huynh

Percent R&D Investments of the overall GDP:

•Qatar: 2.8%•Arab: 2%• Brazil, Costa Rica, Cuba: 0.9%• Israel: 4.93%• Sweden: 3.8%• EU: 1.9%• India 0.8• World: 1.7%

CMU-Q: Performance Impact byProvisioning Variation on Cloud

Presented at IEEE CloudCom 2010

AALIM: Advanced Analytics for Information Management

• Text mining: Extracting diagnosis from reports

• Extracting measurements from reports

• Evaluating clinical decision support - EKG

• Echo video analysis: spatio-temporal trajectories

• Multimodal Fusion of modality searches

Research

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Cloud Computing Roadmap for Education Work Group

• Goal: Provide a resource for the Education Sector to assess the potential use of cloud computing within their organization.

• Assessment Tool – A brief survey tool based on school size, investment funds, IT Skills and other criteria to determine possible cloud computing adoption

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IBM Cloud Academy

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• Sharon, Henry, Art, John and Lee – take a bow:– Link to this recent article on The Invisible Computer Lab published in "INSIDE Higher Ed",

featuring IBM Cloud Academy members: George Mason University, North Carolina State University, Georgia State University, Marist College and California State University, East Bay:

• http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/01/20/virtual_computing_labs_could_boom_as_colleges_trim_costs_and_grow_enrollments

Other member activities and events upcoming on the horizon

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March 10, 2011

IBM Cloud Academy

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IBM Cloud Academy Welcomes:

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Michael Krieger, Unit Mgr for HPC, Research Institute for Symbolic Computation, is liaison to the IBM Cloud Academy community

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IBM Cloud Academy Welcomes:Chris B

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IBM Cloud Academy Welcomes:

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Dr. Thoai Nam, Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, is liaison to the IBM Cloud Academy community

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Hype around cloud has created a flurry of standards and open source activity leading to market confusion.

As important as current standards development efforts are, they are not enough.

There is a lack of a customer driven prioritization and focus within the cloud standards development process.

Context for cloud standards

Cloud computing is a model for enabling cost effective business outcomes through the use of shared application and computing services. The value …. if possible …. is better economics in the execution of business processes.

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The reality of cloud standards

Dozens of new communities and organizations have formed around cloud standards including industries and governments (e.g. China CESI).

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• Drive user requirements into standards development process.

• Establish the criteria for open standards based cloud computing.

• Deliver content in the form of best practices, case studies, use cases, requirements, gap analysis and recommendations for cloud standards.

• Position your organization as a thought leader in Cloud Computing

Join your colleagues including Aetna, AT&T, Boeing, Citigroup, Daimler, Kroger, Lockheed Martin, North Carolina State University State Street, Valspar and over 180 other organizations!

http://www.cloud-council.org

The Cloud Standards Customer Council, the first customer led consortium designed to shape the face of open standards-based cloud computing.

• Participation –. Primarily C-Level executive, VP of Development, IT management, Enterprise architects, cloud strategy

• Meetings– Monthly virtual meetings. Quarterly face-to-face co-located at OMG events. Participation through forums and subgroups.

• Oversight – Managed by OMG with IBM sponsorship (similar to SOA Consortium)

• Leadership – Founding members form steering committee• Standards Development – This group will not produce standards but

will provide guidance to existing standards development organizations

• Web Presence- Community, Webcasts, Case studies, blogs, vendor showcase, whitepapers, case studies awards.

• Candidate Deliverables – ready to use content in the form of use cases, case studies, requirements, gap analysis and recommendations for cloud standards.

• Awareness – Drumbeat of awareness utilizing events, press, books, analysts partnerships and media.

Structure Deliverables

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The Cloud Standards Customer Council Status

• Steering Committee has been elected and is now operational • Members include Lockheed Martin, Aetna, Daimler and IBM

• Formal liaison relationships have been established with standards development organizations

• DMTF, OASIS, TOG, SNIA, NIST and OGF

• Working Groups have been created to focus on cross-industry and industry specific aspects of cloud computing

• Practical Guide to Cloud Computing• Service Model working groups: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS• Interoperability in the Cloud• Cloud Reference Architecture• Cloud Business Patterns• Legal Considerations for the Cloud• Social Business Cloud Standards• Industry related working groups: Financial Services, Government,

Education, Telecommunication

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Some more details of the cloud – (from the cloud)

Virtual Computing Laboratory (VCL) BootcampJuly 2011, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

Attending from GSU:Dr. N. XiongBrian Franklin (CS grad… planning MS)Armad Ellis(CS senior)

http://renoir.csc.ncsu.edu/VCL/Program/program.html

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Let’s look at GSU

https://vcl.gsu.edu

New version 2.2.1Or prior version (Note: The previous version of VCL can be found here)

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Things to do

• Join VCL incubator project• Join mailing lists: vcl-dev, vcl-user• Community (https://cwiki.apache.org/VCL/)

– Interested in joining the community or giving back to open source? There are several ways to assist:

– Join the mailing lists below and discuss ideas.– Contribute bug-fixes or get involved in development.– How to Become a committer– Help with the documentation, both end-user and

installation.– Help improve the website.

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For instance, projects - easy(?) harder

• 1) Provide option on the VCL Statistics so that one can download resource management traces, e.g. to CSV file.

Aaron Peeler sent us a sql query (6/22/2011 email). Students can use as start and implement an option to download (e.g. user selectable option to download CSV file)

• 2) A feature that Kelly Robinson (GSU) asked about (8/31/2011 email): "Block Allocation request: Can this be limited so that only those within a particular group (faculty) can make the request?”

Mike Waldron's reply (8/31) was "I don't know a way to restrict this function to specific users. Looks like it would require a coding change for the frontend." That might be another feature of interest.

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Use JIRA There are 2 places for these types of features to be listed right now. One is to look at the roadmap listed on the latest release page. However, those features are more high level and rather involved.

The other is in our JIRA* system. Anyone can create new issues there. There are various types of issues that can be created, most notable are:

• Bug• Improvement• New Feature

So, what I would suggest is to create a "New Feature" issue for anything you'd like to see added to VCL. Issues can be voted on. Anyone else wanting the same feature can vote for them so that they become a higher priority to the rest of the community.

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More

• Create Linux base image…https://cwiki.apache.org/VCL/create-a-linux-base-image.html

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Closing thoughts

• Ongoing, interactive approach:– Understand strategies - where we are going?– Find alignment with your campus strategy plan– Find common interests

• Value of listening, communication, and participation

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More info…

• Art Vandenberg – avandenberg@gsu.edu

• http://www.gsu.edu/ist/acs (research computing)

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Art Vandenberg

Avandenberg@gsu.edu

Georgia State University

Thank you

Georgia State University

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