{"id":717,"date":"2011-06-10T00:10:16","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T00:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceclouds.org\/?p=717"},"modified":"2011-06-10T00:10:16","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T00:10:16","slug":"science-cloud-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.cels.anl.gov\/scienceclouds\/2011\/06\/10\/science-cloud-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Cloud 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had the privilege of presenting <a title=\"Cumulus: Open Source Storage Cloud for  Science\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.iit.edu\/~iraicu\/ScienceCloud2011\/p04.pdf\">Cumulus: Open Source Storage Cloud for\u00a0 Science<\/a> at the Science Cloud 2011 workshop yesterday.\u00a0 While I was focused on our open source S3 implementation ideal for the extensibility and scientific experimentation, many other interesting topics were presented. Shane Canon present a very interesting look at common misconceptions about the cloud in scientific circles.\u00a0 In it he exposed some truths about what &#8216;on demand&#8217; ultimately means to a data center.\u00a0 He worked to illustrate where on the hype curve the cloud currently is, and what features work for science and what was missing.\u00a0 Elasticity for bursty applications is a clear win but a sighted glaring gap is the lack of a shared file system.\u00a0 A shared file system is an assumed service to most scientific users coming from the grid and most other HPC platforms.\u00a0 This need for a shared file system struck a chord with me and it seemed to be a common theme at the workshop.\u00a0 Lavanya Ramakrishnan gave a talk on <a title=\"Magellan: Experiences from a Science Cloud\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.iit.edu\/~iraicu\/ScienceCloud2011\/p07.pdf\">Magellan: Experiences from a Science Cloud<\/a>.\u00a0 In it she mentioned the struggles scientific users had with their applications inside of VMs.\u00a0 One was the difficulty staging in data into the VM&#8217;s space.\u00a0 A couple of other talks discussed the huge volumes of data created by scientific applications. All of this discussion made me wonder if a Cloud agnostic shared file system service could be created and if such a thing could solve these problems.<\/p>\n<p>The full program is available <a title=\"here.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.iit.edu\/~iraicu\/ScienceCloud2011\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the privilege of presenting Cumulus: Open Source Storage Cloud for\u00a0 Science at the Science Cloud 2011 workshop yesterday.\u00a0 While I was focused on our open source S3 implementation ideal for the extensibility and scientific experimentation, many other interesting topics were presented. Shane Canon present a very interesting look at common misconceptions about the&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.cels.anl.gov\/scienceclouds\/2011\/06\/10\/science-cloud-2011\/\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read Science Cloud 2011\">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-717","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\/717","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=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cels.anl.gov\/scienceclouds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cels.anl.gov\/scienceclouds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cels.anl.gov\/scienceclouds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cels.anl.gov\/scienceclouds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}