AIS-DC

Application Information Services for Distributed Computing Environments

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Cloud computing is emerging as a major computational platform for business as well as scientific computing. Cloud computing is abstracting traditional reliance on locally available hardware and its configuration into the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and software-as-a-service (SaaS) paradigms. In order to realize widespread adoption of cloud computing, consistent (ideally, well-defined) Quality of Service (QoS) needs to be delivered to the end users. Mandated by the cloud providers’ revenue model, cloud customers have to deal with the issue of multitenancy: placing of multiple individual customers on the same compute node. This results in variable performance of jobs executed on the cloud and thus unsatisfactory QoS. There is a need to enable a user to simply and quickly capture, compare, and monitor performance of their jobs within and across cloud computing providers. Extend Application Information Services (AIS) framework to allow individual services to run completely on cloud computing resources. Project will make AIS fully deployable on existing cloud frameworks. Provide a ready-to-deploy AIS distribution. AIS can be integrated into an otherwise existing cloud deployment as a standalone set of services independent of any other machine image or application instance. Perform a runtime analysis of a range of bioinformatics applications from different application categories to validate functionality delivered by AIS. Provide a complete application runtime performance data collection and retrieval solution for cloud computing. The solution easy to deploy, configure, and use by tools and individual users. By allowing individual users to have and easily control their own instances of AIS, any issues regarding data security and sharing are reduced. A user can choose to store any data desired without needing to worry how others might utilize it within a Virtual Organization (VO).'

Introduzione (Teaser)

New applications in cloud computing are helping support a wide variety of fields such as bioinformatics, multimedia and job distribution.

Descrizione progetto (Article)

In the era of digital information, cloud computing has positioned itself as a key platform for business and scientific computing. Based on the concepts of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and software-as-a-service (SaaS), it has made its way into several new services for end users. Against this backdrop, the EU-funded project 'Application information services for distributed computing environments' (AIS-DC) is developing a cloud manager that manages computer clusters on a cloud infrastructure through a web browser.

Dubbed CloudMan, the system is being tested and used at several research centres and universities, blossoming into a solid platform that is becoming well known in academic circles. Already, CloudMan has given way to three new grant proposals, the first of which represented a project called 'Easy and extensible cloud manager' to enhance the concept's potential.

The second proposal and project, titled 'Smart scientific cloud computing', is currently developing a solution for energy-efficient job distribution spanning several cloud resource providers. The third, in the medical field, involves MapReduce-type workloads to help develop new bioinformatics tools over distributed architectures.

Two more proposals have recently been introduced under AIS-DC in the fields of blue biotechnology and multimedia, demonstrating the true potential and versatility of CloudMan. Currently, the project team is exploring more applications in bioinformatics. The variety of different applications has led to many publications on the topic, appearing in various journals. The ongoing results that are emerging from AIS-DC promise to strengthen applications in cloud computing and help position Europe as a leader in the field.