{"id":224,"date":"2010-11-10T18:29:49","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T00:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/press.mcs.anl.gov\/virtualization\/?p=224"},"modified":"2010-11-10T18:29:49","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T00:29:49","slug":"sky-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.cels.anl.gov\/scienceclouds\/2010\/11\/10\/sky-computing\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been wanting to say a few words about sky computing for a while and eventually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isgtw.org\/\">iSGTW<\/a> forestalled me with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isgtw.org\/?pid=1002832\">a very nice article on the topic<\/a>. It describes a cool work by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nimbusproject.org\/\">Nimbus<\/a> committer <a href=\"http:\/\/perso.univ-rennes1.fr\/pierre.riteau\/\">Pierre Riteau<\/a> who created a virtual cluster of over a thousand cores over resources leased from six Nimbus clouds: three provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grid5000.fr\/mediawiki\/index.php\/Grid5000:Home\">Grid\u20195000<\/a> and three by <a href=\"www.futuregrid.org\">FutureGrid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSky computing\u201d was a name we coined back in 2008 to describe the idea of operating in a multi-cloud environment. It addresses the issues of provider interoperability and comparison between providers (cloud markets) as well as end-user concerns \u2013 the abstractions and tools required to provide an integrated and secure environment over resources provisioned in multiple potentially distributed clouds which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nimbusproject.org\/files\/Sky_Computing.pdf\">the original paper<\/a> focused on.<\/p>\n<p>Pierre\u2019s work pushes the limits of this concept in terms of scale: distributing more images to more distributed clouds for longer sustained leases obtained faster. He started out with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drdobbs.com\/high-performance-computing\/224700195\">Grid5000 Large Scale Deployment Challenge award<\/a> earlier this year for managing deployment of hundreds, and by mid-summer was investigating the properties of distributed clusters of thousands of cores. I can\u2019t wait to see what happens next ;-).<\/p>\n<p>More information about Pierre\u2019s sky computing ventures can be found in his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nimbusproject.org\/files\/riteau_tg10.ppt\">TeraGrid 2010 poster<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/ercim-news.ercim.eu\/en83\/special\/large-scale-cloud-computing-research-sky-computing-on-futuregrid-and-grid5000\">the recent ERCIM article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been wanting to say a few words about sky computing for a while and eventually iSGTW forestalled me with a very nice article on the topic. It describes a cool work by Nimbus committer Pierre Riteau who created a virtual cluster of over a thousand cores over resources leased from six Nimbus clouds: three&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.cels.anl.gov\/scienceclouds\/2010\/11\/10\/sky-computing\/\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read Sky Computing\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cels.anl.gov\/scienceclouds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cels.anl.gov\/scienceclouds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cels.anl.gov\/scienceclouds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cels.anl.gov\/scienceclouds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cels.anl.gov\/scienceclouds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cels.anl.gov\/scienceclouds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cels.anl.gov\/scienceclouds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cels.anl.gov\/scienceclouds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cels.anl.gov\/scienceclouds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}