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VCLVirtual Computing Laboratory

An Opportunity to Lead

• Technical• Economic• Pedagogical

• Teaching & Learning• Research & Development• Outreach & Engagement

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Avoiding Crisis-Creating Success

• Silo’ed Investments• Complexity• Access

• SaaS• Borg “like”

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IT Timeline

1960

1980 201020001990

Communications Information Manipulation

Network Web Cloud Computing

Three Foundational IT Elements

Evolution of User Capability [Abstraction Layer]

Information Age Timeline

Tipping Point

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Economic Climate

The Worst of Times

The Best of Times

Enrollment

Expectations

Funding

Risk

Opportunity

• Education has diverse requirements

• Learning requires a technology rich environment

• Historical responses are unworkable

• Behaviors foreshadow outcomes

• Improvement depends on analytics

Crisis

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What is VCL?

VCL • Is a management, hardware and software system that provides

for automated re-configuration, reuse, multiuse and leveraging of IT resources for flexible, on-demand access.

• Is a software as a service model (SaaS) of cloud computing, where computing performed elsewhere delivers a “cloud” of services to your device.

• Is a development initiative undertaken to avert crisis; i.e., to resolve technical, economic and pedagogical barriers to effective access and use of computing technology in learning and research

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Business Case

Technical

Pedagogical

Viability open source

market growth

service provider

support

Apache.Org

MCNC

products

development

Infrastructure

xxxxx

IBM

VCL

analytics

people

green

scalable

agile

C/U_Service

usability

customization

systems

attribution

provisioning

licensing

Economics

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Service Paradigm

Services Technology Consumer TechnologyNetwork

VCL

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Service Environment

Consumer/Personal Computing

SuperComputing

Categories of Delivered Services

Grand challenge class problems often require true supercomputing

Complementary Services

Commodity

Professional

Business

Research

VCL

Scale of Use

Complexity and Unit Cost

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Underlying Architecture

Service Broker 1

Service Broker 3

Service Broker 2

Physical/VirtualProvisioning Engine

Nothing New—Everything Different

VCEVirtual computingEnvironment (VCE)

VCE

UserExperience User

Experience

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Why VCL Works as a Solution

VCL is Counterintuitive• VCL delivers the economic benefits of infrastructure

consolidation while enabling an unprecedented level of user control and service diversity.

• VCL advances aspirational goals while leveling the playing field across services ranging from theoretical research and innovation, to basic commodity tools.

• VCL delivers service specific solutions from a single shared, leveraged architectural framework that dynamically adapts to user demand.

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VCL in Action

1. Mainstreams special, hard to support capabilities — allows CS students to modify, even crash, “servers” with impunity. Intelligent Pipelining, DR and BC.

2. Broadens access to complex and costly apps — HPC, SAS w/ArcGIS….a threshold investment anywhere lowers the barrier to entry everywhere.

3. Provides hassle-free repeatability — faculty have switched from traditional solutions to VCL to bypass local support challenges.

4. Leverages underutilized capacity across disparate uses — shifting resources between student computing and HPC. Also virtualization.

5. Maximizes student investment, promotes safety, accommodates lifestyle, is green — time, place, platform independence.

6. Empowers innovation, experimentation — allows custom software builds, custom configurations, and runtime control (virtual ownership) .

7. Facilitates analytics-based resource management — you can’t manage what you can’t measure. Think software, power, capacity, etc.

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VCL in Action1. Mainstreams special, hard to support capabilities — allows CS students to modify, even crash,

“servers” with impunity. Intelligent Pipelining, DR and BC.

2. Broadens access to complex and costly apps — HPC, SAS w/ArcGIS….a threshold investment anywhere lowers the barrier to entry everywhere.

3. Provides hassle-free repeatability — faculty have switched from traditional solutions to VCL to bypass local support challenges.

4. Leverages underutilized capacity across disparate uses — shifting resources between student computing and HPC. Also virtualization.

5. Maximizes student investment, promotes safety, accommodates lifestyle, is green — time, place, platform independence.

6. Empowers innovation, experimentation — allows custom software builds, custom configurations, and runtime control (virtual ownership) .

7. Facilitates analytics-based resource management — you can’t manage what you can’t measure. Think software, power, capacity, etc.

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Educause 2008

VCL in Action1. Mainstreams special, hard to support capabilities — allows CS students to modify, even crash,

“servers” with impunity. Intelligent Pipelining, DR and BC.

2. Broadens access to complex and costly apps — HPC, SAS w/ArcGIS….a threshold investment anywhere lowers the barrier to entry everywhere.

3. Provides hassle-free repeatability — faculty have switched from traditional solutions to VCL to bypass local support challenges.

4. Leverages underutilized capacity across disparate uses — shifting resources between student computing and HPC. Also virtualization.

5. Maximizes student investment, promotes safety, accommodates lifestyle, is green — time, place, platform independence.

6. Empowers innovation, experimentation — allows custom software builds, custom configurations, and runtime control (virtual ownership) .

7. Facilitates analytics-based resource management — you can’t manage what you can’t measure. Think software, power, capacity, etc.

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Educause 2008

VCL in Action1. Mainstreams special, hard to support capabilities — allows CS students to modify, even crash,

“servers” with impunity. Intelligent Pipelining, DR and BC.

2. Broadens access to complex and costly apps — HPC, SAS w/ArcGIS….a threshold investment anywhere lowers the barrier to entry everywhere.

3. Provides hassle-free repeatability — faculty have switched from traditional solutions to VCL to bypass local support challenges.

4. Leverages underutilized capacity across disparate uses — shifting resources between student computing and HPC. Also virtualization.

5. Maximizes student investment, promotes safety, accommodates lifestyle, is green — time, place, platform independence.

6. Empowers innovation, experimentation — allows custom software builds, custom configurations, and runtime control (virtual ownership) .

7. Facilitates analytics-based resource management — you can’t manage what you can’t measure. Think software, power, capacity, etc.

Page 15: VCL Virtual Computing Labora tory An Opportunity to Lead

Educause 2008

VCL in Action1. Mainstreams special, hard to support capabilities — allows CS students to modify, even crash,

“servers” with impunity. Intelligent Pipelining, DR and BC.

2. Broadens access to complex and costly apps — HPC, SAS w/ArcGIS….a threshold investment anywhere lowers the barrier to entry everywhere.

3. Provides hassle-free repeatability — faculty have switched from traditional solutions to VCL to bypass local support challenges.

4. Leverages underutilized capacity across disparate uses — shifting resources between student computing and HPC. Also virtualization.

5. Maximizes student investment, promotes safety, accommodates lifestyle, is green — time, place, platform independence.

6. Empowers innovation, experimentation — allows custom software builds, custom configurations, and runtime control (virtual ownership) .

7. Facilitates analytics-based resource management — you can’t manage what you can’t measure. Think software, power, capacity, etc.

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Educause 2008

VCL in Action1. Mainstreams special, hard to support capabilities — allows CS students to modify, even crash,

“servers” with impunity. Intelligent Pipelining, DR and BC.

2. Broadens access to complex and costly apps — HPC, SAS w/ArcGIS….a threshold investment anywhere lowers the barrier to entry everywhere.

3. Provides hassle-free repeatability — faculty have switched from traditional solutions to VCL to bypass local support challenges.

4. Leverages underutilized capacity across disparate uses — shifting resources between student computing and HPC. Also virtualization.

5. Maximizes student investment, promotes safety, accommodates lifestyle, is green — time, place, platform independence.

6. Empowers innovation, experimentation — allows custom software builds, custom configurations, and runtime control (virtual ownership) .

7. Facilitates analytics-based resource management — you can’t manage what you can’t measure. Think software, power, capacity, etc.