RISC Software GmbH19.04.20121 Usage Scenarios for a Community Cloud in Education and Research Paul Heinzlreiter, Wolfgang Hennerbichler, Michael Krieger.

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Usage Scenarios for a Community Cloud in Education and Research

Paul Heinzlreiter, Wolfgang Hennerbichler, Michael Krieger


The Location


Johannes Kepler University Linz

founded in 1966 3 faculties

– social sciences & business and economics, law, engineering & natural sciences

about 15.000 students first parallel computer in Austria built at JKU in 1978

– by Prof. Bruno Buchberger Austrian Centre for Parallel Computing founded at JKU in

1989 Austrian Grid Initiative started at JKU in 2004 40 years of computer science at JKU (in 2009) Research Laboratory for Client-Centric Cloud Computing

founded in 2011


JKU Softwarepark Hagenberg 2008+

founded in 1989 by Prof. Bruno Buchberger

1.000 Employees1.300 students (from more than 25 nations at the RISC Institute)

8.000 m² office spaces8.600 m² for University of Applied Sciences Hagenberg600 students rooms (550 OÖ Studentenwerk, 50 Manro)


1987

Going back in time


1989

After the renovation


RISC Software GmbH

Ownership 80% Johannes Kepler University Linz 20% Upper Austrian Government (UAR GmbH)

RISC Software GmbH Software development Applied research Technology transfer 50 employees

RISC Institute Basic research in Symbolic Computation Head: Prof. Peter Paule Founder (1987): Prof. Bruno Buchberger 60 members (including PhD students)


The Aim


The aim

A regional cloud computing environment for– Research: CD-Laboratory for Client-Centric Cloud Computing– Education: first lectures in SE for CC started in 2008– Business: R&D usage

A cloud computing environment to– See– Touch– Experience


The (current) Solution


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IBM CloudBurst@Hagenberg


Public unveiling on April 17, 2012

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Connection

current planned

network Firewall network Firewall

1 Gbit/s 10 Gbit/s

220 IPv4-addresses 256+ IPv4-addresses

IPv6 support

MPLS support

services GridFTP via GlobusOnline services GridFTP via GlobusOnline

Single-Sign-On via Shibboleth

1 GBit/s


Access

Login– Windows-Images: RDP– Linux-Images: SSH

Firewall– Restriction regarding available port and network ranges

File Transfer– via GridFTP-Server und GlobusConnect


GridFTP

GlobusOnline

GridFTP

CloudBurst

MyProxy

GridFTP GridFTP GridFTP


GlobusConnect


Parallel Rendering


Setup for Testcase

4 virtual machines:– 8 Cores– 2 GB RAM– 8 GB HDD

Total:– 32 Cores– 8 GB RAM– 32 GB HDD


DatA analysis


BigData Analysis in the Cloud

Human Genome:– about 3,2 Gbp

Human X-Chromosome:– about 158 Mio. Basepairs– about 152 MB

Mouse Genome:– about 2,6 Gbp

Mouse X-Chromosome:– about 170 Mio. Basepairs– about 163 MB

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Teaching


Topics addressed in lectures

Background of Cloud Setups– virtualization, computer networks, etc.

Security in Clouds– physical security, network security, application security, etc.

Software engineering for Clouds– Data distribution, application distribution, etc.

Legal aspects in Clouds– SLAs, cross border data transfer, privacy, etc.


Next steps


Next Steps

Further „technical“ steps– Direct 10 GBit/s connection to ACOnet & GEANT– Integration of Austrian Identity Federation– IPv6– ...

Further Use-Cases– Telematics– Network Security– ...

Education– Full access for lectures at JKU– Full access for University of Applied Sciences Hagenberg– Full access for Austrian Centre for Scientific Computing


Cloud Computing @ JKU Softwarepark Hagenberg

Thank you for your attention!

RISC Software GmbH19.04.20121 Usage Scenarios for a Community Cloud in Education and Research Paul Heinzlreiter, Wolfgang Hennerbichler, Michael Krieger.

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