http://www.gridvm.org On distributed computing, HPC, VMs, Web Services, Globus, Xen, and more. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:08:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Congratulations everyone! On behalf of the Globus Toolkit development team I am pleased to announce that a new stable release of the Globus Toolkit is now available. GT4.2.0 contains an upgrade to the web services specifications used by the toolkit as well as new features in all services. New ... http://www.gridvm.org/major-globus-toolkit-release-gt420.html Cloud Computing and Its Applications Also see Ian Foster's blog entry http://www.gridvm.org/workshop-cloud-computing-and-its-applications.html From http://www.gridtoday.com/grid/2370981.html rPath Enables Cloud Computing for DoE, CERN RALEIGH, N.C., June 4 -- rPath, whose unique technology simplifies application distribution and management through virtual appliances, today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) have been using rBuilder to deliver virtual appliances to ... http://www.gridvm.org/rpath-enables-cloud-computing-for-doe-cern.html EUCALYPTUS - Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems - is an open-source software infrastructure for implementing "cloud computing" on clusters. The current interface to EUCALYPTUS is compatible with Amazon's EC2 interface, but the infrastructure is designed to support multiple client-side interfaces. May 14th, 2008: EUCALYPTUS ... http://www.gridvm.org/eucalyptus-10.html I am happy to announce the TP 1.3.2 release -- the "cloudkit release" of the Workspace Service. You can download the new release from: http://workspace.globus.org/downloads/index.html As many of you have probably noticed we have recently been sending announcements about the availability of compute clouds for scientific communities: http://workspace.globus.org/clouds/ In a nutshell, TP ... http://www.gridvm.org/workspace-service-tp132.html From workspace-announce: I am happy to announce the availability of a science cloud (codenamed "Stratus" ;-) at the University of Florida. This cloud introduces a new feature: the use of virtual networks with virtual machines for cloud computing. The cloud is available for members of the scientific community: to obtain access ... http://www.gridvm.org/stratus-cloud-at-the-university-of-florida.html If you're feeling adventurous, there's a workspace service pre-release out (click on the pic): http://www.gridvm.org/workspace-service-tp132-release-candidate-0.html Tom Scavo announces some great news: Today, it is with great pleasure that the GridShib Project announces the immediate release of GridShib for Globus Toolkit v0.6.0. This release culminates a 20-month effort to bring SAML-based attribute push to X.509-based Grids. GridShib for Globus Toolkit (GT) is an implementation of a Grid ... http://www.gridvm.org/gridshib-for-globus-toolkit-v060-final.html From http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2008/04/28/xen-api-community-project/: Several community members have contacted me recently about the Xen-API utilities. I looked into this and discovered a great opportunity for community members looking for a project to contribute to. So, I am announcing a new community effort to complete the development of the Xen-API utilities. If you are ... http://www.gridvm.org/xen-api-community-call.html I'm pleased to announce the availability of Xen versions 3.1.4 and 3.2.1 -- bugfix releases in the Xen 3.1 and 3.2 series. The source repositories are available using mercurial from: http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-3.1-testing.hg (tag 'RELEASE-3.1.4') http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-3.2-testing.hg (tag 'RELEASE-3.2.1') Tarballs are available for download (and will soon be linked from the xen.org web pages): http://bits.xensource.com/oss-xen/release/3.1.4/xen-3.1.4.tar.gz http://bits.xensource.com/oss-xen/release/3.2.1/xen-3.2.1.tar.gz Thanks to everyone who ... http://www.gridvm.org/xen-314-and-321.html http://groups.google.com/group/cloud-computing http://www.gridvm.org/cloud-computing-discussion-group.html Virtual Workspaces Tutorial at Open Source Grid Cluster (May 12-16, 2008) There will be a Virtual Workspaces tutorial at the Open Source Grid Cluster conference in Oakland, CA. The conference is May 12-16, 2008. The Virtualization and Cloud Computing with Globus session is on Wednesday, May 14th, from 4:30-6:00 pm. ... http://www.gridvm.org/tutorial-virtualization-and-cloud-computing-with-globus.html Interesting #13 here (well, they're all interesting): 25 radical network research projects you should know about. This points us to Cloud Control with Distributed Rate Limiting which is a paper about distributed bandwidth management. From the conclusion: As cloud-based services transition from marketing vaporware to real, deployed systems, the demands on traditional Web-hosting ... http://www.gridvm.org/cloud-bandwidth-management.html There's been a lot of talk about the dangers of getting locked in to cloud platforms, developing an application that is only suited to one platform. Here's a, let's say... "embellished" example: Gangsta cloud wars could pivot on the traffic-driving power of Google and Microsoft/Yahoo. When you're using VMs like Xen (e.g. ... http://www.gridvm.org/cloud-lock-in-is-not-such-a-big-deal.html EC2 announced future support for adding raw, persistent block devices to VMs, a few non-Amazon people are even testing it already. Ability to create volumes between 1GB and 1TB Ability to create any FS on them after the first mount Mounted from same availability zone as the ... http://www.gridvm.org/amazon-ec2-persistent-storage.html Old news, but here's an interesting website: Online Home for the TeraGrid Planning Process. In particular, the Position Papers section. http://www.gridvm.org/teragrid-planning-site.html Fifth (and hopefully final!) release candidates are available from the public xen-3.1-testing.hg and xen-3.2-testing.hg trees. Please give these ones a spin. I hope to roll the releases early next week. -- Keir [update: http://www.gridvm.org/xen-314-and-321.html] http://www.gridvm.org/new-xen-versions-coming.html They've taken the application level approach (Python currently). And unlike Sun's attempt (which also needed porting of app to a platform instead of the looser requirements of EC2 style), there is an interesting entry incentive: "It's free to get started. Every Google App Engine application can use up to 500MB of ... http://www.gridvm.org/google-launches-application-hosting.html This month's OGF newsletter has an article about the Cloud Systems BoF. If you scroll down to the bottom of the latter link, there are slides and PDFs to view. The mailing list URL in the newsletter is currently broken, this is the right one: http://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo/clouds-bof http://www.gridvm.org/ogf-22-cloud-systems-bof.html New KVM release today: kvm-65. Anthony Ligouri notes some interesting things @ KVM for the Mainframe. http://www.gridvm.org/kvm-65.html