For your information, more on virtualization ;-)
BiG Grids HPC Cloud service goes in beta...
Regards,
Floris
Dear reader,
SARA is developing a High Performance Compute Cloud for the scientific community, funded by BiG Grid. Currently this HPC Cloud is offered in beta to a selected group of scientific users for evaluation purposes. We would like to invite members of the dutch scientific community to apply for evaluation use of the HPC Cloud.
With this newly developed High Performance …
[View More]Computing (HPC) Cloud environment researchers are provided with access to their own Virtual Private HPC Cluster. It is a virtualized HPC Cluster that can be configured to exactly match their needs, without interfering with the needs of other users. It is flexible, offers self service and is dynamically scalable. Users can start from existing templates (images), or built their own cluster from scratch. It is even possible to make a copy from their current software environment (for example their laptop or desktop pc) and turn that into a HPC cluster in the Cloud. In that way, there will hardly be any difference between their development environment and their production environment. There is no need for an (expensive) rewrite of their software, and scientific challenges can be scaled up very easily from desktop scale to High Performance Compute cluster scale.
When you wish to participate in this beta phase and want to make use of the developed service you are welcomed to submit a short proposal to claudia-support(a)sara.nl<mailto:claudia-support@sara.nl> before midnight the 12th of May 2010. Procedures and details are specified below.
== Proposals (250-500 words) should consist of: ==
* a short description of your project objectives
* a project planning in weeks
* estimate of your desired compute hours
* estimate of the storage requirements
== What can be applied for? ==
* applicants will obtain access to the HPC Cloud
* the ability to submit and start your own virtual machines
* manage and configure your own submitted virtual machines
** Use existing templates, upload your own or configure from scratch with free choice of Operating System and applications
** Access to the virtual machines can be through console, ssh and over public_ip
== What is expected of successful applicants? ==
* an entrepreneurial spirit and open mindedness, because of the beta status of this service
* a written evaluation report on your experiences (1-2 pages)
* participation in a planned workshop in September
These and additional details can be found here:
https://grid.sara.nl/wiki/index.php/Using_the_HPC_Cloud/betaevaluation
The SARA support team will actively support the implementation of your planned activities. We are especially interested in applications which are difficult or near impossible to run on the existing HPC platforms (Huygens, Lisa, Grid), but do run in your local environment.
In this beta phase we strive to offer a full production grade environment, we are however continuously improving the technical environment as well as the ways of working. This may have consequences on stability and availability.
Please don't hesitate to inform others interested, apologies for any double postings.
On behalf of the SARA HPC Cloud support team,
Floris Sluiter &
Tom Visser
Mail: claudia-support(a)sara.nl<mailto:claudia-support@sara.nl>
Phone: +316.533.919.31
SARA Computing & Networking Services
High Performance Computing and Visualization http://www.sara.nl
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Hi,
Comments please. Preferably before the meeting starts at 16:00 this afternoon.
-- Sander
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> Resent-From: <hepix-virtualisation(a)cern.ch>
> From: <david.kelsey(a)stfc.ac.uk>
> Date: April 22, 2010 12:32:26 AM GMT+02:00
> To: <hepix-virtualisation(a)cern.ch>
> Subject: Updated draft of VM policy
>
> Dear all,
>
> The updated draft (V1.2) of the Virtualisation Policy may be found at
> the JSPG wiki...
>
> http:/…
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>
> I also attach a PDF version just in case this is not reachable.
>
> Lots of things to be discussed I am sure :=)
>
> For discussion tomorrow.
>
> Regards
> Dave
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------
> Dr David Kelsey
> Particle Physics Department
> Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
> Chilton, DIDCOT, OX11 0QX, UK
>
> e-mail: david.kelsey(a)stfc.ac.uk
> Tel: [+44](0)1235 445746 (direct)
> Fax: [+44](0)1235 446733
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> Scanned by iCritical.
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and now to everybody instead of just oscar ...
On 22 Apr 2010, at 11:22, Jeff Templon wrote:
> Yo,
>
> On 22 Apr 2010, at 10:19, Oscar Koeroo wrote:
>
>> 5. Instantiated images should not be any more constrained, notably in terms
>> of network access,
>> than a normal worker node at the site at which the image is instantiated.
>>
>> Isn't this something that you state to a Site admin, not an Endorser?
>>
>
> yeah ... what Oscar said. …
[View More]I had a vague feeling i didn't understand when I read it, thanks Oscar for the nudge. How would a producer/combiner "constrain" the image in some way that had some bad consequences for the site or for security?
>
> JT
>
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Wow, this will do everything we ever dreamed of in a storage system...
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> TOP STORIES
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> CEPH: THE DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEM CREATURE FROM THE OBJECT LAGOON
> Did you ever see one of those terrible Sci-Fi movies involving a killer
> Octopus? Ceph, while named after just such a animal, is not a creature
> about to eat an unlucky …
[View More]Spring Breaker, but a new parallel distributed
> file system. The client portion of Ceph just went into the 2.6.34 kernel
> so learn a bit more about it.
> http://www.elabs7.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=ax0v,l3w4,33o,1d9t,1q12,d806,8gy6
...
> Copyright 1999-2008, QuarterPower Media, LLC.
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for people who will go to CERN for meetings in the future.
Hurng
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From: Atlas Secretariat <Atlas.Secretariat(a)cern.ch>
Date: Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 3:16 PM
Subject: ONLINE booking of CERN hostel/ONLINE Supermarket for CERN hostel
To: atlas-gen(a)cern.ch
Dear colleagues
We are pleased to inform you of two new developments with regards to the
CERN hostels.
ONLINE Booking of CERN Hostel accommodation
The first is the possibility to book directly …
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hostel online via the web. Reservations may only be made max. 2 months in
advance and for a maximum stay of 2 months. *ONLY those people who are
correctly registered with CERN and eligible to stay in the hostel will be
able to login using their NICE password and make a reservation. *
*(hostel booking rules
https://espace.cern.ch/hostel-service/Wiki%20Pages/Booking%20Rules.aspx). *
*
*
*You will be asked to give credit card details to confirm your reservation
and may cancel up to 48 hours before arrival.*
https://espace.cern.ch/hostel-service/default.aspx
People (e.g. a student group) who are not registered with CERN may still
reserve directly via the Hostel reception (cern.hostel(a)cern.ch).
We will continue to keep the block bookings for the next ATLAS and Physics
weeks however it is our intention to phase out these bookings as guests
become more familiar with the system.
ONLINE SUPERMARKET for CERN Hostel
https://espace.cern.ch/hostel-service/default.aspx
on the left hand column "CERN Hotel online food store"
A basic online supermarket has been put in place. This is ONLY for residents
of the hostel. Again it requires a nice login and will check if you are
registered as a guest at the hostel.
If you place your order before 11h, you can collect it in Restaurant 1 at
the cash till between 10h and 11h the following day. This is perfect for
people who have no time or perhaps transport to carry heavy items from the
local shops and also offers the possibility to buy simple items to cook
meals in the hostel kitchen.
We hope you will find these two new offers useful and that they will make
the busy lives of many of you a little bit easier. Thanks to the CERN Hostel
team for their continued efforts in improving the life of Users at CERN.
ATLAS Secretariat
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