dynamic provisioning of service environments with aspen

Dynamic Provisioning of Service Environments with ASPEN

Cameron Kiddle, Roger Curry, Nayden Markatchev, Andrey Mirtchovski, Rob Simmonds and Tingxi Tan

Grid Research CentreUniversity of Calgary

Outline ASPEN Fire Dynamics Simulator Demonstrator Cloud-based Rendering Service Demonstration

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ASPEN: Automated Service Provisioning ENvironment Supports dynamic provisioning of virtual

resources based on user demand Developed by Grid Research Centre in

collaboration with HP Labs Technologies Employed

Torque – physical resource management Moab – virtual resource scheduling Xen – virtualization Solaris ZFS – image management (cloning)

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ASPEN – High Level Architecture

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Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) Demonstrator

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Comprehensive environment for the Fire Dynamics Simulation (FDS) application (NIST)

Demonstrates dynamic adaptivity of ASPEN Explores use of Web 2.0 and social networking

technologies to provide enhanced experience for users

Cyberinfrastructure employed Dynamic cloud-based dynamic infrastructure

(ASPEN) Social networking-based user interface (Facebook)

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FDS Demonstrator Functionality Upload/edit input files Submit/resubmit

simulations Download results Visualize results Share/interact with

other users

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FDS Demonstrator Infrastructure

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Cloud-based Rendering Service

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Pilot project aimed at creating an on-demand cloud-based rendering service for EDM Studio Inc.

Cyberinfrastructure employed: Dynamic cloud-based infrastructure (ASPEN/Eucalyptus) Social networking-based user interface (Ning/Elgg)

Low-resolution image from Frank Slide animation rendered by EDM Studio using ASPEN.

Rendering Service Functionality

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Create/share rendering projects

Upload/edit input files Submit rendering jobs View/download

rendered images and movies

Demonstration

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Contact Information

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Cameron Kiddlekiddlec@cpsc.ucalgary.cahttp://pages.cspc.ucalgary.ca/~kiddlec/

http://grid.ucalgary.ca/

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