Title: OpenNebula: Leading innovation in cloud computing management

Speaker: Ignacio Llorente (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)

Title: Security & privacy issues in clouds

Speaker: Alvaro Arenas (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK)

Title: Cloud versus Cloud: the Blessings and Challenges of Cloud Computing for Science

Speaker:

Kate Keahey
Mathematics and CS Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Computation Institute, University of Chicago

Abstract:

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing has revolutionized the way we think about acquiring and managing physical resources. Since it allows users to easily provision remote resources on-demand, it enabled whole communities to treat the acquisition of compute and storage resources as an operational consideration rather than capital acquisition. The emergence of this new model raises many questions, in particular for special requirements groups such as scientific computing. Can cloud computing be used by scientific applications? Does it, or will it ever, provide sufficient capabilities for high-performance applications? How will it change our work patterns? What challenges need to be overcome, and what is its overall potential for accelerating science?

I will give an overview of the challenges and potential of cloud computing projects in science. I will describe what attracted various scientific communities to cloud computing and give examples of how they integrated this new model into their work. I will also discuss challenges and issues – related to performance, logistics, utilization, and privacy that need to be overcome to make the benefits of cloud computing available to an ever larger set of scientific applications. Finally, I will discuss the emerging technology trends and discuss how they can benefit science.

Bio:

Kate Keahey is a Scientist in the Distributed Systems Lab at Argonne National Laboratory and a Fellow at the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago. Kate pioneered the use of virtual machines in distributed computing which grew into Infrastrucutre-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing. A vocal advocate of cloud computing for science, she led numerous projects focused on overcoming barriers to its adoption as well as proposing and exploring now interaction patterns emerging in this context. Kate created and leads the Nimbus project, an open source cloud computing platform providing Infrastructure-as-a-Service as well as higher-level services for scientific communities.