Join the Academic Compute Cloud Experience Workshop, April 29th 2013 at ETH Zurich
Peter Kunszt of ETH Zurich and Sergio Maffioletti of University of Zurich invite you to join the
Academic Compute Cloud Experience Workshop, April 29th 2013
to be held at ETH Zurich.
The speakers will be reporting on their experiences in building and operating an academic private cloud infrastructure.
Topics include:
- Setting up our own Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Cloud
- Choosing and installing a Cloud middleware stack, experience with OpenStack and HP CloudSystem Matrix
- Running applications, solving real research problems on our Cloud comparing it with other infrastructures
- Business models of operating a cloud in the academic environment
The workshop marks the end of the AAA-SWITCH funded project called Academic Compute Cloud Provisioning and Usage. The project partners are the ETH, the University of Zürich and SWITCH.
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Agenda
| 09.00 | – | 09.15 | Peter Kunszt, ETH Zürich | Introduction and Setting the Stage |
| Part 1: Building a Cloud | ||||
| 09:15 | – | 09:45 | Sandro Mathys, ETH Zürich | Hardware and Cloud Stacks at the ETH and Evaluation of various Cloud Stacks, results |
| 09:45 | – | 10:15 | Antonio Messina, University of Zürich | Hardware and Cloud Stack at the UZH Storage in the Cloud, best practice. |
| 10:15 | – | 10.30 | Questions and Discussions | |
| 10:30 | – | 10.50 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:50 | – | 11:10 | Joël Casutt, SWITCH | SWITCH: Experience with the SWITCH cloud |
| 11:10 | – | 11:30 | Andy Edmonds, ZHAW | ICCLab cloud experiences |
| 11:30 | – | 11:50 | Tim Bell, CERN | CERN cloud |
| 11:50 | – | 12:10 | Tilo Steiger, ETH Zurich | ETH Storage Cloud |
| 12:10 | – | 12.30 | Questions and Discussions | |
| 12:30 | – | 13:30 | LUNCH | |
| Part 2: Using the Cloud | ||||
| 13:30 | – | 14:00 | Sergio Maffioletti, Riccardo Murri, University of Zürich |
Use cases |
| 14:00 | – | 14:30 | Peter Kunszt, ETH Zürich | Use cases |
| 14:30 | – | 15:00 | Markus Eurich, ETH Zürich | Business Models for Academic Compute Infrastructures |
| 15:00 | – | 15.15 | Questions and Discussions | |
| 15:15 | – | 15:30 | Coffee Break | |
| Part 3: Commercial Clouds for Research | ||||
| 15:30 | – | 16:00 | Raymond Freppel, HP Technical & Cloud Solution Consultant | HP Cloud solutions, from private to public and hybrid clouds. Use cases for academic clouds. |
| 16:00 | – | 16:20 | Jürgen Schneider / Hans-Dieter Wehle, IBM Research Lab | IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator and use cases |
| 16:20 | – | 16:40 | Muharem Hrnjadovic, Rackspace | Rackspace Academic Cloud Stories |
| 16:40 | – | 17:00 | Emmanuel Mesas, Azure Solution Specialist | Microsoft Azure Cloud |
| 17:00 | – | 17:20 | Tony De Varco, SGI | SGI Cyclone cloud Research Use Cases |
| 17:20 | – | 17:30 | Questions and Discussions | |