Managing Applications Across Clouds

Google Summer of Code 2009 ideas

Primary Mentor: Shantenu Jha sjha@cct.lsu.edu
Secondary Mentor: Andre Merzky andremerzky@gmail.com.
OMII Project: OMII-SAGA.

Background

Last year GSoC funded a project: Implementing MapReduce in SAGA. This project led to two peer-reviewed papers, on at Cloud 2009 (held in Conjunction with CCGrid) and the other at WGCV (Workshop on Grids Clouds and Virtualization) held in conjunction at GPC. Copies of these papers can be found at:

• http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~sjha/publications/saga_cloud_interop.pdf
• http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~sjha/publications/saga_data_intensive.pdf

Project Goals

Provide a single interface to launch and manage applications across private and public Clouds (i.e EC2 and OpenCloud Consortium).

Project Description

Based upon Application level Grid-Cloud Interoperability work that ensued from last year's GSoC project, we would like to take the interoperability capabilities of SAGA based applications further. In particular, we would like to develop the basic components so that Application written using SAGA can easily utilize the Open Cloud Consortium's test-bed and infrastructure:

• http://www.opencloudconsortium.org/

Specifically this would require developing SAGA adaptors to Sector and Sphere. With this development, SAGA based applications could run on "private" Clouds (EC2), public Clouds (opengridconsortium) and Grids. We anticipate complex, hybrid data-intensive applications will need this capability.

Project Requirements

Medium to Advanced C++