1. SUMMER VACATION SCHOLARSHIP | IM&T Scientific Computing in the Cloud

2. Scientific Computing in the Cloud | Alyssa Biasi 2 | Figure 1.

3. Scientific Computing in the Cloud | Alyssa Biasi 3 | Server Virtualisation Figure 2.

4. Scientific Computing in the Cloud | Alyssa Biasi 4 | On Demand Self-Service Figure 3.

5. Cloud Service Models Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) E.g. Gmail, Dropbox Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) E.g. Google AppEngine, Window Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) E.g. Amazon EC2, Rackspace Scientific Computing in the Cloud | Alyssa Biasi 5 | Figure 4.

6. The Cloud Experience Scientific Computing in the Cloud | Alyssa Biasi 6 |

7. Cloud 9 Test Beds Compute Clusters: Burnet Bragg Vayu Scientific Computing in the Cloud | Alyssa Biasi 7 | Virtual Machines (VMs): IM&T Cloud “Bluetea” Amazon EC2 Windows Azure NeCTAR QERN (QCIF Early Research Node) Operating System: Vayu and QERN - CentOS 5.9 Compute Clusters- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Virtual Machines- Custom SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11

8. Burnet Run by the Advanced Scientific Computing (ASC) group Scientific Computing in the Cloud | Alyssa Biasi 8 | Machine Type: CPU Type: Number of Cores: Memory: File System: Compute cluster Intel Xeon X5670 at 2.93 GHz 1752 14 TB IBM GPFS

9. Bragg Run by the Advanced Scientific Computing (ASC) group Scientific Computing in the Cloud | Alyssa Biasi 9 | Machine Type: CPU Type: Number of Cores: Memory: File System: Compute cluster Intel Xeon E5-2650 at 2 GHz 2048 16.4 TB NFS

10. Vayu National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) Scientific Computing in the Cloud | Alyssa Biasi 10 | Machine Type: CPU Type: Number of Cores: Memory: File System: Compute cluster Intel Xeon E5540 at 2.53GHz 11936 37 TB Lustre

11. IM&T Cloud Scientific Computing in the Cloud | Alyssa Biasi 11 | Machine Type: CPU Type: Number of Cores: Memory: File System: Cloud VM Intel Xeon X5680 at 3.33 GHz 8 (virtual CPUs) 32 GB SAS

12. “Bluetea” - OpenStack Scientific Computing in the Cloud | Alyssa Biasi 12 | Dedicated desktop Implementation of OpenStack Figure 5. Figure 6.

13. CPU Type: Number of Cores: Memory: Operating System: Intel Xeon X5660 at 2.80GHz 6 48 GB Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS (Precise) - Server “Bluetea” Scientific Computing in the Cloud | Alyssa Biasi 13 | The Host: The VM: Machine Type: CPU Type: Number of Cores: Memory: Cloud VM Intel Xeon X5660 at 2.80GHz 4 (virtual CPUs) 32 GB

14. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Amazon web Infrastructure-as-a-Service Scientific Computing in the Cloud | Alyssa Biasi 14 | Machine Type: CPU Type: Number of Cores: Memory: Instance Type: Cloud VM Intel Xeon E5-2665 at 2.40GHz 8 (virtual CPUs) 68.4 GB Quadruple Extra Large Machine Type: CPU Type: Number of Cores: Memory: Instance Type: Cloud VM Intel Xeon E5-2650 at 2.00GHz 16 (virtual CPUs) 117 GB High Storage Eight Extra Large First VM: Second VM:

15. Windows Azure Windows virtual machines In preview stage Scientific Computing in the Cloud | Alyssa Biasi 15 | Machine Type: CPU Type: Number of Cores: Memory: Cloud VM AMD Opteron 4171 HE 8 (virtual CPUs) 13.8 GB Note: Required a 10 GB swap file in order to run benchmarking applications.

16. NeCTAR Research Cloud Australian Government and research organisations partnership Scientific Computing in the Cloud | Alyssa Biasi 16 | Machine Type: CPU Type: Number of Cores: Memory: Cloud VM AMD Opteron 6238 2.9GHz 4 (virtual CPUs) 16 GB

17. QERN Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation (QCIF) Queensland node for NeCTAR In pre-preview stage Scientific Computing in the Cloud | Alyssa Biasi 17 | Machine Type: CPU Type: Number of Cores: Memory: Cloud VM AMD Opteron 6172 at 2.1GHz 8 (virtual CPUs) 48 GB

18. The Results Scientific Computing in the Cloud | Alyssa Biasi 18 |

19. Materials Studio Scientific Computing in the Cloud | Alyssa Biasi 19 |

20. Materials Studio - Speedup Scientific Computing in the Cloud | Alyssa Biasi 20 |

21. TMD - Virtual Machines Scientific Computing in the Cloud | Alyssa Biasi 21 |

22. TMD Scientific Computing in the Cloud | Alyssa Biasi 22 |

23. TMD - Speedup Scientific Computing in the Cloud | Alyssa Biasi 23 |

24. Oversubscription Scientific Computing in the Cloud | Alyssa Biasi 24 | Total allocated resources are more than the physical resources.

25. Noisy Neighbour Scientific Computing in the Cloud | Alyssa Biasi 25 | Sharing resources with computationally heavy ‘neighbour’.

26. Thank You. Scientific Computing in the Cloud | Alyssa Biasi 26 | Figure 7.

27. Figure 1: Duncan, D. Cloud-Computing, digital image, EmpowerCS, “Cloud Computing Mainstream still Two Years away”, Accessed 5 th February 2013 http://www.empowercs.com.au/blog/2012/11/cloud-computing-mainstream-still-two-years-away Figure 2: Sourced from and edited Vmware vSphere, vSphere Host vs.. Virtual Infrastructure, digital image, VMware, Accessed 4 th February 2013 http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter- virtualization/vsphere/scale-security.html Figure 3: Screenshot taken of Ubuntu OpenStack Dashboard – instance launch. Figure 4: Czernicki, B. Cloud Service Terms, digital image, Silverlight Hack, “IaaS, PaaS and SaaS Terms Clearly Explained and Defined”, Accessed 8 th February 2013 http://www.silverlighthack.com/post/2011/02/27/IaaS-PaaS-and-SaaS-Terms-Explained-and- Defined.aspx http://www.silverlighthack.com/post/2011/02/27/IaaS-PaaS-and-SaaS-Terms-Explained-and- Defined.aspx Figure 5: OpenStack: The Open Source Cloud Operating System. OpenStack Software Diagram, digital image, OpenStack, Accessed 7 th February 2013 http://www.openstack.org/software/http://www.openstack.org/software/ Figure 6: Morrison, G. What is OpenStack?, digital image, TechRadar, “What on Earth is OpenStack?”, Accessed 6 th February 2013 http://www.techradar.com/au/news/software/what-on-earth-is- openstack-1112804 Figure 7: Maheshwari, A. Cloud Rain, digital image, Brainstuck, Accessed 11 th February 2013 http://www.brainstuck.com/2009/08/19/drought/ Scientific Computing in the Cloud | Alyssa Biasi 27 | References