November 2014 - OpenStack-HPC - lists.openstack.org

Fwd: Scheduler Bypass
by Phab Lucky 25 Nov '14

25 Nov '14

Hi, all. I'm new to OpenStack, so I apologize in advance if my question lacks relevance or sense. We are trying to build a cluster orchestrator for Big Data processing and one of the key requirements is the ability to place each computing task in each physical server. We have been trying to leverage this development with OpenStack, but, as far as I can see by the on-line documentation, the Nova interface does not allow users to specify the physical location (host) where VMs (servers) are created. Instead, this task is performed by the Scheduler, which has its own algorithms and policies. Even though we can try to customize the Scheduler, I was wondering if I could simply bypass it and tell Nova to create a VM on host X. I know this sounds like bad design, as we are violating the location transparency that OpenStack attempts to deliver, but this seems to me the only way to bring the computation to where the data is. Any thoughts? Thanks a lot. Phab

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UCC 2014 London UK-- Conference Programme is now available
by Ashiq Anjum 10 Nov '14

10 Nov '14

Dear All, The conference programme for UCC 2014, being held in London from December 8-11 2014, is available at: http://computing.derby.ac.uk/ucc2014/conference-programme/ We have some very interesting keynote speakers this year. The notable names and their talks include the following: 1. Enabling Cloud Computing at Hyper-Scale: Kenji Takeda, Microsoft 2. Cloud Native Cost Optimization: Adrian Cockcroft, Battery Ventures (prev. Netflix, eBay, Sun) 3. A Few Control Issues in Warehouse-scale Computing: John Wilkes, Google 4. Rack-Scale Computers and the Cloud: Ant Rowstron, Microsoft 5. Joe Baguley, Chief Technology Officer, EMEA, VMware 6. Professor Yike Guo, Imperial College London 7. Actors in the Cloud: Supporting Security, Scalability and Availability , Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA 8. Clinical Intelligence & Integration: Tackling Large Data Analytics in Real-Time, Oliver Vettel and Andreas Koop, Roche Panel Discussion: How adaptive should our infrastructure (networks, data centres etc.) be to support next generation Clouds? Alan Sill; Open Grid Forum (OGF) Joe Baguley; VMWare John Wilken; Google Erik Elmroth; Umeå University (UMU) Gul Agha; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign UCC 2014 Tutorials 1. Azure Machine Learning for Research, Kenji Takeda 2. Model-Driven Management of Multi-Cloud Applications, Danilo Ardagna 3. The Intercloud Architecture and Project, David R. Bernstein 4. Distributed Data Storage: From Dispersed Files to Stealth Databases, Josef Spillner, Johannes Müller, 5. Software Development in Cloud: An Experiential Study with CMS, Chandra Sekaran K, 6. Data Analysis with R, Shruti Kohli, Shruti Kohli 6. Microsoft Azure for Research, Kenji Takeda 7. Autonomic Clouds, Omer Rana and Manish Parashar, Omer F. Rana 8. Help Clinical Intelligence take the next step using state-of-the art in-memory analytics, Oliver Vettel and Andreas Koop 9. CRISTAL : Designing Traceable Cloud-based Systems, Richard McClatchey, Andrew Branson UCC 2014 Workshops 1. International Symposium on Big Data Computing 2014 – BDC 2014 2. 6th Cloud Control Workshop – CloudControl6 3. Cloud Federation Management: Identity, Resources and Applications Workshop – CFM 2014 4. Workshops on Standards and Pre-Standards Topics in Clouds, Big Data and Data Analytics – SCBDA 2014 5. ITaaU Network+ Symposium – ITaaU 2014 6. Clouds and eScience Applications Management Workshop – CloudAM 2014 7. Crowdsourcing and Gamification in the Cloud Workshop – CGCloud 2014 8. Re-computability in the Cloud Workshop – Re-computability 2014 9. Advances in CC Legislation, Accountability, Security and Privacy Workshop – CLASP 2014 10. Trust in Cloud Computing Workshop – IWTCC 2014 11. Green Cloud Computing Workshop – GCC 2014 12. Smart City Clouds: Technologies, Systems and Applications Workshop – SCCTSA 2014 13. Cloud Automation, Intelligent Management and Scalability Workshop – CAIMS 2014 14. Cyber-physical Cloud Computing Workshop – CPCC 2014 15. Network Virtualization and SDN for Cloud Data Centres Workshop 16. Big Data, Intelligence Management and Analytics Workshop – BDIMA 17. Big Data and Social Networking Management and Security Workshop 18. Education in the Cloud Workshop – EC 2014 19. EGI Federated Cloud Workshop 20. Plugfest: Cloud Interoperability Event UCC 2014 Registration To register please visit: http://www.derby.ac.uk/enterprisecentre/events/ucc/book/ Best regards Ashiq Anjum Organising Chair UCC 2014 -- http://computing.derby.ac.uk/ucc2014/ Dr. Ashiq Anjum Reader in Distributed Computing Distributed and Intelligent Systems (DISYS) research centre School of Computing and Mathematics University of Derby Room E510 Kedleston Road Derby, UK DE22 1GB ashiq.anjum(a)cern.ch & a.anjum(a)derby.ac.uk +44 (0) 1332 591881 & 44 (0) 772 4017071 http://www.derby.ac.uk/staff/ashiq-anjum/

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SCPE - Special Issue on Modeling and Simulation Applications of Software Agents
by Katarzyna Wasielewska 10 Nov '14

10 Nov '14

SCALABLE COMPUTING: PRACTICE AND EXPERIENCE - Volume 15, Issue 3 (2014) Scientific International Journal for Parallel and Distributed Computing ISSN 1895-1767 www.scpe.org SCPE is an electronic journal. It provides immediate open access to its content following the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Special Issue on Modeling and Simulation Applications of Software Agents Full texts available at http://www.scpe.org/index.php/scpe/issue/view/122 TABLE OF CONTENTS * Introduction to the Special Issue on Modeling and Simulation Applications of Software Agents - Costin Badica, Mirjana Ivanovic * A system supporting the evaluation of the operational effectiveness of naval tasks based on agent simulation - Davide Anghinolfi, Alberto Capogrosso, Massimo Paolucci, Perra Francesco * Formal modelling and simulation of a multi-agent nano-robotic drug delivery system - Marina Ntika, Petros Kefalas, Ioanna Stamatopoulou * ABVE-construct: an agent-based virtual entreprise model for civil engineering - Mihaela Oprea * Portability in clouds: approaches and research opportunities - Dana Petcu, Athanasios V. Vasilakos * Fariness of task scheduling in high performance computing environments - Art Sedighi, Yuefan Deng, Peng Zhang

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