Art Vandenberg Account Manager Customer Relations/Research Art Vandenberg Account Manager Customer Relations/Research Cloud Computing at Georgia State University CSc 4998 September 14, 2011 Georgia State University 9/14/2011A.Vandenberg1

Georgia State Strategic Plan President Becker Plan adopted Jan Goal 1: Become a national model for undergraduate… demonstrating that students from all backgrounds can achieve academic and career success Goal 2: Significantly strengthen and grow the base of distinctive graduate and professional programs A.Vandenberg9/14/20112

Georgia State Strategic Plan Goal 3: Become a leading public research university addressing the most challenging issues of the 21st century. Goal 4: Be a leader in understanding the complex challenges of cities and developing effective solutions. Goal 5: Achieve distinction in globalizing the University. A.Vandenberg9/14/20113

Cloud Computing for Students Dr. Yi Pan, computer science, is working with Information Systems & Technology on cloud computing solutions for campus. Open source Virtual Computing Lab is improving student computing options. Instead sitting in a computer lab, students can request "images” via a browser - from anywhere. MATLAB, SAS, SPSS, Maple… - is available “in the cloud” 9/14/2011A.Vandenberg4

Selecting Matlab2010a (or other options) using my browser…

VCL Cloud advantages Not just student impact ( software available that students did not have before, convenience of working from anywhere, anytime ) But also lab impact ( images, HW costs, SW costs, complexity, turnaround time ) AND, it can be faster! Initial results with Matlab indicate that VCL performs better than a standalone laptop (Lenovo Thinkpad, Intel Core 2 Duo, 1.9GHz, 2GB RAM) 9/14/2011A.Vandenberg6

VCL as a way to address costs - Hardware/Software Cost Cycles: Requested vs. Funded Ref: An Analysis of Full Cost Student Computing Labs and Potential for Virtual Computing Options, M. L. Russell, A. Vandenberg and N. Xiong, Poster, 3 rd International Conference on the Virtual Computing Initiative, October 22-23, 2009, Research Triangle Park, NC. 9/14/2011A.Vandenberg7

VCL Architecture 9/14/2011A.Vandenberg8

Small VCL Configuration ESM OPM MM  1 BladeCenter E chassis  2 Ethernet Switch Modules (BNT Layer 2/3 copper)  Power supplies 3&4 (for 7 or more blades)  Chassis network module to connect management node to storage –Fiber Channel - Optical pass through –iSCSI - Copper pass through  2-14 HSxy Blades  At least one blade configured to attach to external storage for Image Library (FC, iSCSI, …)  Server for scheduler, database, and management node  Server(s) to deliver VCL services  Storage for Images  FC or iSCSI storage array (few TB) Three Networks Public, Private, Management Intelligent Images, Security 9/14/2011A.Vandenberg9

Scaling VCL  Network switch  Cisco 6509e (or equivalent in your favorite network vendor flavor)  3 separate networks + VLANs  Network connected to Internet for user access  Private Network connected to VCL management node (for loading and managing images)  Private Management network (connecting BladeCenter Management Modules and VCL management node - controls power on/off, reboot, …)  VCL Management nodes  One management node for every ~100 blades  Physical connection to storage array - shared file system (GFS, GPFS) for multiple management nodes at one site 9/14/2011A.Vandenberg10

IBM Cloud Academy IBM Cloud Academy - GSU one of inaugural members Nov IBM Cloud Academy - GSU one of inaugural members Nov Initial membership from 16 institutions (K-12, Higher Ed) world-wide - "We are very pleased to be a founding member of this innovative initiative that will bring on-demand computing resources to all Georgia State students," said J. L. Albert, GSU's Associate Provost, CIO The mission… provide an organization for K-12 schools and higher education institutions… actively integrating cloud technologies into their infrastructures… to share best practices… and to collaborate with partners to create innovative cloud technologies and models. IBM Cloud Academy Goals - Forum for exchange of best practices - Access to emerging cloud technology R&D from IBM & partners - Repositories for cloud computing curriculum, tools, resources - Foster pilot projects and collaboration - Disseminate insights, metrics, benefits of cloud computing 9/14/2011A.Vandenberg11

Virtual Computing Lab VCL installed on IBM iDataPlex - cost effective solution Students evaluated virtual computing options Jan-Mar recommended VCL, iDataplex option - effective use of student tech fee funding Acquired iDataPlex October dx340, 84 nodes (672 cores, 2GB/core) - Power, UPS, HVAC completed Dec 2009 First images January config: ESXi for provisioning, LDAP, Antivirus… Demo accounts released April image: Windows XP, browser, MS Office+app Pilot Production accounts released August base image: 1GB RAM, Windows XP + (MS Office; Matlab, Maple, etc.) Engineering & frank talk November /14/2011A.Vandenberg12

Virtual Computing Lab Cloud Colloquium, August 30, 2010 Computer Science, Departmental Colloquium - Dr. Andy Rindos, IBM Research, RTP Center for Advanced Studies (CAS), Raleigh, NC Dr. Andy Rindos, - Dr. Bill Robinson, CIS - Windows XP image with IBM Rational Products Dr. Bill Robinson, Opportunities for collaboration with IBM around cloud computing, including a review of VCL-based education cloud activities around the world. - Dr. Yi Pan, IBM Faculty Award ($24K) - Potential University Delivery Services (students support/supporting VCL) Outcome of Colloquium - Demand queue for images: - Dr. Andrey Shilnikov, Neuroscience - Matlab, dynamical systems - Tim Olsen, PhD student - images for process improvement - Dr. Robert Clewley, Neuroscience - Python based environment - Dr. Dave McDonald, CIS - upper level database design courses - Dr. Michael Weeks, CS – programming in Linux/Matlab environment 9/14/2011A.Vandenberg13

Technical details of our VCL High level summary of experience July 2010… RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 for iDataPlex management node - ESXi for compute nodes provisioning - free! - enables multiple virtual machines per single node/hypervisor (vs. xCAT provisioning of complete node) Virtualized the head node - avoids “burning” whole node as head node - flexibility for head nodes (devl, test/QA, prod…) Perhaps Might Have: - configured iDataPlex dx360, not 340 (for remote system administration) - reversed fast disk on compute nodes & GigE connection via switch 9/14/2011A.Vandenberg14

Other technical notes Your experience may vary… ESXi v.3 - newer version “broke” VCL code - ESXi doesn’t support Windows 7, so using Windows XP - ESXi v.3 no longer generally available - hope to resolve Antivirus software may not work well with clones… - McAfee, for instance, refuses to update a virtual image that is - invoked with out-of-synch time-stamp. - We’re use MS Security Essentials Multimedia experience may be limited - Ericom’s BLAZE ( ) being tested by GMU 9/14/2011A.Vandenberg15

A Faculty teaching perspective… Dr. Predrag Punosevac, GSU Mathematics & Statistics On Jan 27, 2010, at 12:04 AM, Predrag Punosevac wrote: Dear Art, This is so COOL! I was just using Windows 2003 image in the full screen mode over RDP (rdesktop) on my PIII laptop 700 MHz and 128 MB of RAM which is running OpenBSD 4.5. The session was so snappy, I could not believe my eyes. It is faster then DeLL workstation in my office with Core 2 duo and 4 GB of RAM. … Predrag P.S. I am like kid now :-) I will now play with RedHat images. 9/14/2011A.Vandenberg16

Another Faculty perspective… Dr. William Robinson, GSU Computer Information Systems On Sep 30, 2010, at 11:53 AM, William Robinson wrote: Kelly, I’m concerned about the vcl. I just now reserved and ran an image. It took about 3 minutes to get the reservation. Then, I tried to connect. It failed until about 10 minutes later. Then, everything was fine. This was after all the students had left. I’m concerned that: - Its too slow - Cannot handle 20 students - Unreliable I have to make other plans. I’ve contacted IBM about their cloud and will start restart our CIS vcl. 9/14/2011A.Vandenberg17

An Engineering perspective IS&T Managing Technology Engineer’s feedback – November ) VCL is not a turnkey product. There is not a clean definition of what is code vs. configuration, there is not a clean path for defining what you would need to customize. Most commercial software would document a few different install options based on how you were going to use the software, and have some descriptions of what those configuration require in order to function. 2) VCL software is not designed to keep a good separation between users and infrastructure. For example the VM that the user is given access to has two network interfaces, one of which is on a network that has infrastructure components (ESXi management interface on it). 9/14/2011A.Vandenberg18

An Engineering perspective… Your experience may vary… 3) iDataPlex network switches are a black box set of switches. …Even IBM has a hard time making them do more advanced configurations. This makes debugging of issues that might involve the network extremely difficult, even if you have support from IBM. 4) iDataPlex is built around xcat. …But xcat doesn't (or at least IBM install engineer could not) get it to deploy ESXi. 5) We did KVM on the head node. …Which is helpful for allowing you to get a production and development system running on the same physical hardware, but this to adds a layer of complexity that IBM has a hard time offering support, especially if KVM, XCAT and the network switches all need to be looked at while trouble shooting a problem. 9/14/2011A.Vandenberg19

An Engineering perspective The short answer… The short answer is our implementation is going VERY slowly, and consuming a LOT of time. We will eventually get it working, but if you factor in cost of staff time, we would have been much better off selecting a commercial product. A commercial product would have been in production sooner, cost us less, and in the long run be more maintainable, especially should we face any staff turn over issues in the future. 9/14/2011A.Vandenberg20

My (Art Vandenberg) perspective The short answer… Disruptive technologies are that. We need to understand that production, research, teaching have different perspectives. We need to work together on solutions (what is taking me forever may be easy for you to solve…) The future is not built by doing the same thing as today Update September 2011 As part of VCL Office hours, we alerted NCSU developers to our performance issues IBM, VCL developers conf called with GSU technical – recommended steps to take VCL inplemented And by the way, our experience was similar to that of VCL Bootcamp performance 9/14/2011A.Vandenberg21 Pop quiz: If NCSU has blades across multiple racks and GSU has 84 blades in one rack, would there be different performance?

IBM Cloud Academy an overview and timeline 9/14/2011A.Vandenberg22

23 The mission of the IBM® Cloud Academy is to provide an organization for K-12 schools and higher education institutions who are actively integrating cloud technologies into their infrastructures to share best practices in the use of clouds and to collaborate with partners to create innovative cloud technologies and models. IBM and education: collaborating for innovation IBM Cloud Academy From IBM Cloud Academy charter as developed by initial member institutions, 1Q 2010

24 Integrate Cloud Services and Technologies Implement solutions for education based on IBM world-class cloud services and technology, accelerating the transformation to a Smarter Planet™ Collaborate with peers, researchers and developers Work with colleagues from around the globe in a cloud-based collaboration forum to share best practices, ideas, and insights Innovate Cloud services and technologies Participate in the definition of emerging cloud technologies and implementations with IBM researchers, developers and Business Partners Three Functions of the IBM Cloud Academy

25 What are the goals of the IBM Cloud Academy? Exchange of best practices – Accelerate deployment of successful models Access to emerging technologies – Gain insight from IBM developers and research Creation of a repository – Provide curriculum, tools and resources Support for pilot and collaborative projects – Evaluate technical, financial and service qualities Dissemination our findings – Document experiences, performance metrics, and benefits IBM Cloud Academy Charter, 1Q 2010

26 Membership qualifications criteria and responsibilities – Integrate IBM cloud computing technologies and solutions into institutional infrastructure – Institutional-level commitment to participle over a multi-year membership – Commitment to collaborative projects and initiatives – Engage. Use cloud computing technologies and solutions – Participate. Share insights, lessons learned and experiences members and the broader education community. – Advance. Contribute to or lead strategic projects – Influence. Provide IBM with feedback on cloud computing solutions and offerings IBM Cloud Academy Charter, 1Q 2010  Membership participation qualifications  Member responsibilities

27 Membership benefits Community Access. Access to a support community that is changing local IT culture by embracing cloud computing. Knowledge Sharing. Thought leaders and technical experts with knowledge of proven cloud computing technologies and solutions. Project Support. Technical and business case examples, benchmarking data and access to resources that support cloud computing projects. Project Funding. Funding opportunities for cloud computing projects and research that are competitively awarded Resources. Strategies to use cloud computing to transform education and research in K-12 and higher education globally. Headlights: Trends in K-12 and higher education globally as relates to the move to cloud computing models and approaches. IBM Cloud Academy Charter, 1Q 2010

28 Collaboratory used for IBM Cloud Academy member projects Collaboratory – Members from around the globe work together using IBM LotusLive™ cloud services with web conferencing, social networking and collaboration tools Collaborative themes Selected by the IBM Cloud Academy governing board – 2010 focus themes: Enhancing research computing using cloud computing Delivering educational resources with a cloud Building the institution ’ s future infrastructure and roadmap with cloud IBM technical community support – Initiatives supported by a technical board comprised of IBM researchers, architects, developers and members of the IBM Academy of Technology specializing in cloud computing

IBM Cloud Academy’s first white paper illustrates a statewide approach: “The Transformation of Education through State Education Clouds” OC12 (622 Mbps Cicruit) OC48 (2.4 Gbps Circuit) DWDM (10 Gbps Ethernet) WFU North Carolina Virtual Computing Lab / VCL cloud featured Production/pilots/users also present within: NC Community College System NC K-12 NCA&T Research Production/ Pilots/Users Interest/Plans Available on IBM Cloud Academy website: 29

30 K-12 and higher ed success stories also available on website

31 IBM SmartCloud for Education offerings to get started Education Workloads LotusLive! Life-cycle and service management Analytics Collaboration Development and test Desktop and devices Infrastructure storage Infrastructure compute Business processes Education solutions IBM SPSS® Decision Management for Education IBM SmartCloud Enterprise IBM BladeCenter® Foundation for Cloud IBM Smart Desktop Cloud IBM Smart Business Storage Cloud *Note: Only key offerings mentioned, many more available Turn information into insights Increase agility Connect and empower people Drive Effectiveness & Efficiency Offerings on IBM SmartCloud IBM ‘For Cloud’ (private) Enabling Technologies IBM Tivoli® Provisioning Manager Virtual Computing Lab Cast Iron Cloud Integration

32 IBM Cloud Academy member locations globally (growing each month) HanoiVietnam Silicon Valley California DublinIreland São Paulo Brazil Johannesburg South Africa BangaloreIndia TokyoJapan IBM Cloud Labs Seoul S. Korea Beijing China IBM Cloud Academy Members ibm.com/solutions/education/cloudacademy

33 It is a new IT consumption and delivery model well suited for colleges, universities and K-12 schools Is cloud computing really all that new? Yes and no. Centralized Computing Client-Server Virtualization Internet Cloud is a derivative of what we have done in the past, and is enabled by a convergence of maturing technologies Cloud computing

34 “Cloud-onomics”: Why education is looking to the cloud CLOUD COMPUTING = OPTIMIZED SERVICES = AGILITY + BUSINESS AND IT ALIGNMENT + SERVICE FLEXIBILITY INDUSTRY STANDARDS + = REDUCED COSTS ….makes use of virtualization, standardization and automation to free up operational budget for new investment = VIRTUALIZATION + ENERGY EFFICIENCY + STANDARDIZATION AUTOMATION AND SELF SERVICE + … allowing you to optimize new investments for direct business benefits

35 Cloud computing helps move beyond organizational silos With cloud computingWithout cloud computing  Virtualized resources  Automated deployment of IT resources  Standardized services  Location- independent  Rapid scalability  Self-service Software Hardware Storage Networking Software Hardware Storage Networking Software Hardware Storage Networking Universities, for example, can be the innovation centers within Smarter Cities™; associated business incubator & entrepreneurship parks for job & business creation

36 There is a spectrum of deployment options for cloud computing Third-party operated Third-party hosted and operated Client data center Private cloud Hosted private cloud Managed private cloud Client Shared cloud services Client A Client B Public cloud services A Users B Internal/PrivatePublic Hybrid IT capabilities are provided “as a service,” over an intranet, within the client and behind the firewall Internal and external service delivery methods are integrated IT activities / functions are provided “as a service” over the Internet 64% 30% Public Private Note: Not all workloads will move to cloud! Source: IBM Market Insights, Cloud Computing Research, July n=1,090 Cloud workload preference

37 Cloud computing benefits in education Students:  Raises computing resource accessibility, even in underserved districts  Increases availability and integrity of data, applications and research materials  Adds mobility  Reduces client application and system resource footprint  Amplifies application and computing performance  Improves server and data storage capacity  Offers convenient web access Faculty: Grants accessibility to virtual machines Schedules delivery of assignment instructions, study materials, syllabi or software Enables faculty to create custom images for specific course, independent of (and not conflicting with) other faculty course images Unites departments and campuses to eliminate information silos to deliver comprehensive educations Administration:  Standardizes applications and processes  Provisions software, resources and management of data  Lightens the burden of software version control  Reduces total cost of ownership (TCO)  Lowers the need for in-house IT staff  Cuts resource management costs including power and cooling  Raises server utilization and software licenses, reducing purchasing requirements  Brings greater virtualization  Optimizes resource allocation

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Preliminary Results of the Survey for Collaborative Themes 9/14/2011A.Vandenberg39

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Cloud Computing Seminar April Friday, April 23rd (further update on call) IBM Research Cloud Computing Activities (including the Research Compute Cloud) Additional education presentations and follow-up discussions 9/14/2011A.Vandenberg41

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43 Binghamton University – SUNY (April ) 9/14/2011A.Vandenberg43

44 IBM philanthropic endeavor Launched: November 2004 Donates massive compute power to projects solving humanitarian and world problems using grid technology Public donates spare PC cycles Direct results to public domain Grow membership for multiple projects – leverage recruitment effort  Over 342,000 CPU years  300 cpu years in typical weekday  1.52 million devices  509,000 members  Over 100,000 IBM employees  222 countries

45 How it works Member joins – Register at web site WCGRID.ORG – Download software – Install software Agent asks for work Device processes work at lowest CPU priority Device contacts the servers Repeat… Returns computed results Gets new work unit Don ’ t have to leave computer on 24/7…. Just use it as you normally would “ BOINC ” software Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing

46 What research is being run on World Community Grid 9/14/2011A.Vandenberg

47 Typical Project Large computing problem is split into millions of smaller independent runs Donor machines around the world request those work units from our servers The machines return their results after they have processed them Servers assemble pieces of the answers to produce the final results of the research project Direct results made available in the public domain Input Output

48 And it is GREEN We don ’ t ask people to leave computers on 24/7, just use them as they normally would Default CPU use set to 60% to limit extra energy consumption Checkpointing to not lose results computed so far Can limit further with custom settings %100% CPU utilization Watts Thinkpad T42p power consumption

49 Running on a Cloud Cloud runs virtual images of production work Hardware supports virtual images Run World Community Grid at lowest priority on hardware not fully utilized by production work VS. Run as a virtual image VM

50 World Community Grid assumes the burden of running the grid Security work Grid enabling new projects Importing research data Creating work units Scheduling work units Voting on results Combining results Backups Results to researchers Monitoring disk space Checking errant devices Problem work units Helping the scheduler Web site modifications Forum monitoring Support s Soliciting new research Beta testing System updates / upgrades Audits Georgia State University has been a World Community Grid Partner since July 2007! GSU team contributes to a dozen different such projects (over 44 years of compute total) and we are ranked overall as #781 out of 27,061 teams. Join GSU team : And then search for and select GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY team.

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 Participants in ICA-sponsored are encouraged to become contributors to the VCL Apache incubator project – The Apache ICLA (Individual Contributor License Agreement) that should be filled out can be found at:  The VCL code base consists of – (a) a PhP-based GUI front-end (currently using the Apache web server) – (b) a PERL-based back-end management daemon, and – (c) a database (with defined/input metadata) through which front- and back-ends intercommunicate – currently MySQL.  Some immediate project opportunities around the VCL code base include: – Extending VCL database support (beyond just the current MySQL) Code changes to (a) & (b) above have been made allowing VCL to use Derby or DB2. A general approach has been to integrate other DBs, e,g., Informix, Oracle. – Extending VCL native hypervisor support VCL currently directly supports various flavors of VMware, with a module providing KVM support under test Other native hypervisor support needs to be developed, e.g., for XEN. – Extending VCL deployment modules beyond xCAT A module allowing VCL deployment using TPMfOSD is almost complete A module integrating IBM Director with VCL, allowing deployment of Virtual Systems Pools has been completed, with opportunities to further extend that work. ICA Infrastructure Projects around VCL 52

ICA Infrastructure Projects around VCL (cont.) – Extending VCL web server support (e.g., to accommodate IHS, sMash, etc.) – Extending VCL to interoperate with/access resources from other public or private clouds. VCL can currently access mainframe LUs from the Marist College mainframe supporting the IBM System z Academic Initiative Other clouds/cloud stacks with which VCL could interoperate include through the development of appropriate (PERL) modules include: IBM CCMP, IBM TSAM, Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure, Eucalyptus, OpenNebula, etc. – Extending the security and access management capabilities of VCL Engagement in the NC State sponsored SOSI (Secure Open Systems Initiative) project Enabling VCL private VLAN support – Integrating image management technologies/solutions into VCL Also exploring image repository technologies through projects like Olive.org – Providing additional metering and charge back capabilities to VCL – Integrating more analytics into VCL management For example, developing smarter pre-provisioning algorithms beyond last used – Extending VCL hardware platform support (especially for high-end HPC platforms) – Extending degree of VCL virtualization support – Extending VCL real-time and rendering application support Exploration of NoMachine etc. protocols, user-side applets, etc. Andy 53

HBCU Cloud GA Education Cloud NC Education Cloud MD Education Cloud SC Education Cloud VA Education Cloud HBCU Southern State Education Cloud Consortium Opportunity: GSU as nucleus of GaCloud?

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Welcome to Dr. Jerzy Kotowski – President of Cloud Committee at the University First university cloud computing center in Poland – 03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/32226.wss 03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/32226.wss – Cloud-focused courses to more than 1,500 students – Started with 500 students over the summer ICA Welcomes: WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Chris B 9/14/2011A.Vandenberg62

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Welcome to Dr. Omar Al-Jarrah – Vice President and CIO will be JUST’s liason to the IBM Cloud Academy New Center of Excellence for Service Science Innovation based on Cloud – a708-6adc93023c93&ID=102&RootFolder=%2FNews%2FLists%2FActivities a708-6adc93023c93&ID=102&RootFolder=%2FNews%2FLists%2FActivities – IBM CloudBurst 2.1 environment to nurture Service Science Innovation – Will deliver teaching resources & technology expertise to students via cloud, including Developing new curricula on key technology areas such as Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Business Processes Management (BPM), Business Analytics, Business Processes Optimization (BPO), Service Science and Cloud Computing. ICA Welcomes: Jordan University of Science and Technology Chris B 9/14/2011A.Vandenberg66

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Özyegin University A new non-profit university located in Istanbul, Turkey – Focused on becoming an entrepreneurial research university – New departments and Research centers are being added – The student body is growing almost exponentially – Every registered student is given a laptop/netbook – Classroom teaching is coupled with online CMS (Moodle) – Student s are maintained at Google 68

The Goals Integrate Cloud Computing into curriculum Encourage use of Cloud Computing in academia Help faculty to easily adopt emerging technologies Enable online/offline computer-based exams with 100s of students Enable E-science and E-engineering “Ozyegin University has become a very critical and preferred partner for IBM Cloud Academy in Turkey, especially for the development of Cloud- based and traditional E-education curriculum. Distinguished research and academic capability of the university is unique and promises a bright future for high quality education in Turkey.” Jale Akyel IBM University Relations Leader, Central Eastern Europe and Turkey 69

The Challenges Adopting state-of-the-art, but fast-changing technologies – Many courses have accompanying lab sessions – The speed of change in technology puts pressure on the physical infrastructures including the IT infrastructures – E-engineering and E-science are evaluated as feasible alternatives Reduce IT-related burden on faculty & Reduce software-maintenance burden on IT – Engineering software can be hard to install & maintain – IT staff cannot deal with the support of all software from different engineering disciplines (faculty either too busy or not tech-savvy) – Cloud-based software support customized for specific courses and maintained elsewhere will be helpful 70

The Solution Apache Virtual Computing Lab (VCL) and similar others – Being tested over IBM servers to dynamically grant researchers and instructors access to computational resources and revoke these resources when not needed E-Engineering platform services developed as part of the initiative. – Finite element analysis (FEA) cloud service – Data mining & modeling service for collaborative analytics – Complex event processing service – IaaS configurations Virtual MPI and Hadoop clusters 71

The Progress – Research: Implementing a cloud-based FEA service to be used for HPC research and teaching in several engineering departments. – Teaching: Combination of USB-bootable operating systems (OS) with cloud applications to deliver custom-designed and network-controlled applications (labs and exams) to hundreds of students simultaneously – Collaboration: Testing Drupal and Liferay as front-end portals to our services Installation and testing of IBM LotusLive/LotusQuickr™® suites is in progress to bring together members of IBM Cloud Academy in Turkey 72

73 IBM Global Education 2010 Trends in Virtual Classrooms Ubiquitous Mobile Devices – Challenging the traditional virtual classroom platforms to move into mobile device platforms. Research Collaboration - Virtual Classrooms are facilitating research and grant proposals among faculty and graduate students. Easy Data Reporting - Pressure from administration and school officials for success metrics and data are accelerating the use of virtual classroom platforms because of their built in analytics. New Teaching Models – Breakout rooms, micro-lectures, collaborative class projects, etc. are enabling creative teaching methods. Distinct move from “sage on the stage” to collaborative teaching environment. Patty Sullivan 73

 Biweekly birds-of-a-feather calls for the community of VCL users. Proposed title: “VCL Virtual Office”. –Each week, a VCL community member will discuss a defined VCL issue or topic (technical tutorial, suggested best practices, user experiences, etc.) – followed by an open discussion period, where members can discuss problems they are facing, joint projects they would like to launch, etc. –If you would like to participate, please send me an with your availability to –Feel free to provide a VCL issue or topic that you would like to discuss on these calls. We are soliciting volunteers for the first few presentations slots.  Once again, for those interested in VCL, you can: –Install the open source VCL cloud computing code. All material can be found at Installation documents:  Participants who wish to contribute code changes will need to join the VCL Apache incubator project at The Apache ICLA (Individual Contributor License Agreement) that should be filled out can be found at: ICA Infrastructure Projects around VCL (Virtual Computing Lab) 9/14/2011A.Vandenberg74

Development & Research Work on “HPC-as-a-Service” Model Son Huynh Visualization Hadoop App.’s Weather Modeling Virtual Private Research Clusters MANAGING HPC COMPLEXITY WITH CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE: Performance & Utilization On-Demand Resource Deployment Self-Service Web Access Automation Workflow Capacity Planning Dynamic Scalability Network Partitioning (Multi-tenancy) Monitoring & Tracking Usage Accounting Centralized User Management & Security School Faculty & Students Research Community Cloud Service Provider (CSP) (IT/Data Center) Seismic Modeling Portfolio Trading Analytics 75

Research Collaboration on Cloud Son Huynh Percent R&D Investments of the overall GDP: Qatar: 2.8% Arab: 2% Brazil, Costa Rica, Cuba: 0.9% Israel: 4.93% Sweden: 3.8% EU: 1.9% India 0.8 World: 1.7% CMU-Q: Performance Impact by Provisioning Variation on Cloud Presented at IEEE CloudCom 2010 AALIM: Advanced Analytics for Information Management Text mining: Extracting diagnosis from reports Extracting measurements from reports Evaluating clinical decision support - EKG Echo video analysis: spatio-temporal trajectories Multimodal Fusion of modality searches 76

Cloud Computing Roadmap for Education Work Group Goal: Provide a resource for the Education Sector to assess the potential use of cloud computing within their organization. Assessment Tool – A brief survey tool based on school size, investment funds, IT Skills and other criteria to determine possible cloud computing adoption 77

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Sharon, Henry, Art, John and Lee – take a bow: – Link to this recent article on The Invisible Computer Lab published in "INSIDE Higher Ed", featuring IBM Cloud Academy members: George Mason University, North Carolina State University, Georgia State University, Marist College and California State University, East Bay: _computing_labs_could_boom_as_colleges_trim_costs_an d_grow_enrollments _computing_labs_could_boom_as_colleges_trim_costs_an d_grow_enrollments Other member activities and events upcoming on the horizon Chris B 9/14/2011A.Vandenberg80

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IBM Cloud Academy Welcomes: Chris B  Michael Krieger, Unit Mgr for HPC, Research Institute for Symbolic Computation, is liaison to the IBM Cloud Academy community 9/14/2011A.Vandenberg82

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IBM Cloud Academy Welcomes: Chris B  Dr. Thoai Nam, Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, is liaison to the IBM Cloud Academy community 9/14/2011A.Vandenberg84

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88 Hype around cloud has created a flurry of standards and open source activity leading to market confusion. As important as current standards development efforts are, they are not enough. There is a lack of a customer driven prioritization and focus within the cloud standards development process. Context for cloud standards Cloud computing is a model for enabling cost effective business outcomes through the use of shared application and computing services. The value …. if possible …. is better economics in the execution of business processes. 88

89 The reality of cloud standards Dozens of new communities and organizations have formed around cloud standards including industries and governments (e.g. China CESI).

90 Drive user requirements into standards development process. Establish the criteria for open standards based cloud computing. Deliver content in the form of best practices, case studies, use cases, requirements, gap analysis and recommendations for cloud standards. Position your organization as a thought leader in Cloud Computing Join your colleagues including Aetna, AT&T, Boeing, Citigroup, Daimler, Kroger, Lockheed Martin, North Carolina State University State Street, Valspar and over 180 other organizations! The Cloud Standards Customer Council, the first customer led consortium designed to shape the face of open standards-based cloud computing. Participation –. Primarily C-Level executive, VP of Development, IT management, Enterprise architects, cloud strategy Meetings– Monthly virtual meetings. Quarterly face-to-face co-located at OMG events. Participation through forums and subgroups. Oversight – Managed by OMG with IBM sponsorship (similar to SOA Consortium) Leadership – Founding members form steering committee Standards Development – This group will not produce standards but will provide guidance to existing standards development organizations Web Presence- Community, Webcasts, Case studies, blogs, vendor showcase, whitepapers, case studies awards. Candidate Deliverables – ready to use content in the form of use cases, case studies, requirements, gap analysis and recommendations for cloud standards. Awareness – Drumbeat of awareness utilizing events, press, books, analysts partnerships and media. StructureDeliverables

91 The Cloud Standards Customer Council Status Steering Committee has been elected and is now operational Members include Lockheed Martin, Aetna, Daimler and IBM Formal liaison relationships have been established with standards development organizations DMTF, OASIS, TOG, SNIA, NIST and OGF Working Groups have been created to focus on cross-industry and industry specific aspects of cloud computing Practical Guide to Cloud Computing Service Model working groups: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS Interoperability in the Cloud Cloud Reference Architecture Cloud Business Patterns Legal Considerations for the Cloud Social Business Cloud Standards Industry related working groups: Financial Services, Government, Education, Telecommunication

9/14/2011A.Vandenberg92 Some more details of the cloud – (from the cloud) Virtual Computing Laboratory (VCL) Bootcamp July 2011, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA Attending from GSU: Dr. N. Xiong Brian Franklin (CS grad… planning MS) Armad Ellis(CS senior)

Let’s look at GSU New version Or prior version (Note: The previous version of VCL can be found here)here 9/14/2011A.Vandenberg93

Things to do Join VCL incubator project Join mailing lists: vcl-dev, vcl-user Community ( – Interested in joining the community or giving back to open source? There are several ways to assist: – Join the mailing lists below and discuss ideas. – Contribute bug-fixes or get involved in development. – How to Become a committer How to Become a committer – Help with the documentation, both end-user and installation. – Help improve the website. 9/14/2011A.Vandenberg94

For instance, projects - easy(?) harder 1) Provide option on the VCL Statistics so that one can download resource management traces, e.g. to CSV file. Aaron Peeler sent us a sql query (6/22/2011 ). Students can use as start and implement an option to download (e.g. user selectable option to download CSV file) 2) A feature that Kelly Robinson (GSU) asked about (8/31/2011 ): "Block Allocation request: Can this be limited so that only those within a particular group (faculty) can make the request?” Mike Waldron's reply (8/31) was "I don't know a way to restrict this function to specific users. Looks like it would require a coding change for the frontend." That might be another feature of interest. 9/14/2011A.Vandenberg95

Use JIRA There are 2 places for these types of features to be listed right now. One is to look at the roadmap listed on the latest release page. However, those features are more high level and rather involved. The other is in our JIRA* system. Anyone can create new issues there. There are various types of issues that can be created, most notable are: Bug Improvement New Feature So, what I would suggest is to create a "New Feature" issue for anything you'd like to see added to VCL. Issues can be voted on. Anyone else wanting the same feature can vote for them so that they become a higher priority to the rest of the community. Josh Josh Thompson VCL Developer North Carolina State University * JIRA provides issue tracking and project tracking for software development teams to improve code quality and the speed of development. 9/14/2011A.Vandenberg96

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Closing thoughts Ongoing, interactive approach: – Understand strategies - where we are going? – Find alignment with your campus strategy plan – Find common interests Value of listening, communication, and participation A.Vandenberg9/14/201198

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