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Thanks Steven! 



Regards.. 
Salman. 

On Oct 18, 2012, at 10:17 AM, Steven Manos wrote:

> Hi Salman,
> 
> There are some tools available that can orchestrate machines on OpenStack clouds. One example is CloudMan [ http://usecloudman.org/ ], which is used as the engine for Galaxy, a bioinformatics analysis platform. 
> 
> Users in OpenStack can also manage their own projects where each project can have multiple users that are able to share VM snapshots, which is very useful in a research collaboration context.
> 
> And of course there are tools like puppet that can be used to script and automate the launch and control of 1000's of VMs..
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Steven.
> 
> 
> On 18/10/2012, at 6:55 PM, Salman Toor <salman.toor at it.uu.se>
>  wrote:
> 
>> Hello everyone.
>> 
>> 
>> If possible can someone put some light on this ? 
>> 
>> Thanks in advance. 
>> 
>> Regards..
>> Salman. 
>> 
>> 
>> On Oct 14, 2012, at 1:40 AM, Salman Toor wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> My background is relate to grid community. Initiating VMs for individuals make lots of sense but what about to manage stuff at project level? I mean when you have thousands of computation jobs most of them are similar but some have different requirements and you need to some how manage all of them. I am sure there will be some way of starting jobs automatically. With this i mean each job will run in a separate envirnoment . One way is to use job description files and then some management component ....
>>> 
>>> Can someone please point out some projects have worked or working in this direction using Openstack? I mean submission and management of computational jobs.
>>> 
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>> 
>>> Regards....
>>> Salman.
>>> 
> 
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