| By Ignacio M. Llorente |
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| February 27, 2009 04:21 AM EST |
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Formed by CNRS/LAL, GRNET, SixSq Sàrl, and UCM, StratusLab is an informal, open collaboration that focuses on the use cloud technologies in research and commercial environments and on the management of cloud resources in those environments.
The key issue with productive use of the technologies is effective management of the cloud resources. For broad adoption, cloud resources must be manageable with the same (or similar) techniques currently used by administrators of data centres. The initial activities of the collaboration will investigate how different management techniques can be adapted to cloud resources.
The first results of the collaboration will be presented in an international event, the joint EGEE User Forum/OGF25 Conference, March 2-6 in Catania, Italy. The presentation will describe the initial hurdles--both administrative and technical--in operating an EGEE resource center in the Amazon cloud. It will also describe initial successes in operating grid services in the cloud as well as using cloud resources to extend computing capabilities of a non-cloud EGEE resource center.
In the future, the collaboration will move on to see how "inner" and "outer" clouds can be integrated. The outer clouds are those currently offered by commercial providers (for example, Amazon Web Services). An inner cloud would be a private data center using cloud technologies to manage it's resources. Seamless integration of the two domains brings unprecedented flexibility to system administrators and to users of the systems. Within research environments, an open source cloud implementation would be necessary.
Ignacio M. Llorente, Ph.D in Computer Science and Executive MBA, is a Full Professor in Computer Architecture and Technology, and the Head of the Distributed Systems Architecture Research Group at Complutense University of Madrid. He has held several appointments as an independent expert for the European Commission (Information Society and Media Directorate-General); visiting positions at the Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering (NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA); consultancy positions with Sun Microsystems; and a Senior Researcher position in the Advanced Computing Lab at CAB (associated to NASA Astrobiology Institute).
He has 17 years of experience in research and development of advanced distributed computing and virtualization technologies, architecture of large-scale distributed infrastructures and resource provisioning platforms, and management of international projects and initiatives on Grid and Cloud computing; having led the research group in 15 sponsored projects; and having published more than 130 scientific papers in the leading journals and proceedings books.
He is currently co-leading the research and development of the OpenNebula Virtual Infrastructure Engine, the Globus GridWay Metascheduler, and the Grid4Utility initiative for federation of Grids. He participates in the EGEE and BEinGRID European projects, as UCM partner responsible, and in the Globus Alliance, as chair of one of its projects; and coordinates the Activity on Management of Virtual Execution Environments in the RESERVOIR Project, main EU-funded research initiative in virtualized infrastructures and cloud computing. He is the Grid Community Liaison Coordinator for the Service Oriented Infrastructure Working Group of NESSI; and co-chairs the OGF Working Group on Open Cloud Computing Interface. He coordinates the Middleware Activity in the Spanish Initiative in e-Science and the Working Group on Service Oriented Infrastructures and Grids of INES.
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