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On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 5:33 AM, Tim Bell <Tim.Bell at cern.ch> wrote:

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> Where we are trying to find a good solution is regarding how to use spot
> market resources in our cloud. If we allocate out a quota to a project but
> they do not use the full resources, we want to be able to offer that quota
> to others on a low SLA (killed with little warning). This allows us to get
> our resource utilisation up  while ensuring that projects can get the
> resources they’re entitled to when there is a need.****
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> This is an interesting area to be getting a few sites together to share
> solutions.****
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This is an area I'm looking at as well.  My short term desire is to provide
a way to provided for the same hardware sometimes being used to run
virtualized instances and sometimes be provisioned as a baremetal system
(either through Triple0 or manually reprovisioned).  My short term solution
seems to be evolving around host-aggregates and special flavors.

That communicates the "these can disappear at any time" SLA but doesn't
address the quota issue which I think is a more general need.  In many
deployment resource cost is expressed directly as cost, in my research
environment we don't have any direct internal billing for compute resources
and I don' t pretend to understand the labyrinth of grants that fund the
place, so "cost" here is expressed in quotas.  I want people to have large
(possibly infinite) quotas for cheap resources like "spot instances" and
small quotas for "expensive" resources for example aggregates with 1:1
virtual to physical resource allocation.

I though I remembered talk of abstracting the quota system into it's own
project at the Portland summit, but can't seem to find it in my notes or on
line, if I didn't dream that I'd love it if someone could refresh my memory.

-Jon

Jonathan Proulx
Sr. Technical Architect
MIT CSAIL
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