2ACM ScienceCloud 2010

• Dr. Manish Parashar

– Rutgers University

– National Science Foundation

• Dr. Roger Barga

– Microsoft Research

• Dr. Kate Keahey

– Argonne National Laboratory

– University of Chicago

• Dr. Peter Dinda

– Northwestern University

• Dr. Bob Grossman

– University of Illinois at Chicago

• Scientific computing has been traditionally done

on tightly coupled systems, including large

clusters and supercomputers.

– Are current cloud computing technologies ready

for scientific computing?

– What characteristics will the ideal scientific cloud

computing applications have?

– What are the largest changes needed to efficiently

support scientific cloud computing?

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• Scientific computing has long been about efficiency and

performance using dedicated environments allowing

codes to be predictable

– Clouds pose a great challenge in this space, with significantly

lower and higher variance end-to-end performance

• Could clouds offer similar performance guarantees

for higher costs?

– Allocate N nodes over the smallest number of switches

– Allocate dedicated nodes

– Allocate instances on the lightest loaded nodes

– Allocate instances as densely as possible to allow fast

communication among the instances

• What pricing model is needed to make delivering

QoS guarantees commercially viable? 4ACM ScienceCloud 2010

• What are the largest hurdle(s) to make scientific

cloud computing a reality and sustainable?

• Are the challenges in the networking, storage,

programming models, resource management,

security, economics, social, all of the above, …?

• What can we do as a community to make cloud

computing more attractive to the scientific

community?

5ACM ScienceCloud 2010

• Providing a Cloud Network Infrastructure on a

Supercomputer

– Eric Van Hensbergen, Robert Wisniewski, Bryan

Rosenburg, Amos Waterland, Dilma Da silva,

Jonathan Appavoo, Volkmar Uhlig, Jan Stoess, Udo

Steinberg

• Seeking Supernovae in the Clouds: A

Performance Study

– Keith R. Jackson, Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Rollin

Thomas, Karl Runge

• A Perspective on Scientific Cloud Computing

– Craig Lee ACM ScienceCloud 2010 6

• Reception (co-located with OGF demo

session)

– Location: Lasalle II (lower level)

– Time: 6:15PM – 7:45PM

– Comment: Cash Bar

• Dinner

– Location: Superior Ballroom

– Time: 8PM – 11PM

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Abstracts due:

August 25th, 2010

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• Program is online at:

– http://dsl.cs.uchicago.edu/ScienceCloud2010/

• Feedback

– Mail to iraicu@eecs.northwestern.edu