EGI Technical Forum 2013 - Madrid

Session

Using clouds - experiences and requirements from the community

18 Sept 2013, 11:00

Meliá Castilla Convention Centre, Madrid

Conveners

Using clouds - experiences and requirements from the community

• Nuno Ferreira (EGI.EU)

Description

This session includes presentations from various projects, communities and initiatives who have experimented with or examined the use and benefits of cloud services for scientific and training purposes. The talks will provide insights into the case studies, applications and pilots that scientific users integrated with academic clouds in Europe, and will include a presentation from the XSEDE project about their recent survey about their 'Cloud Use Survey'.

190. Running Big Data on the EGI Federated Cloud

Alvaro Simon (FCTSG)

18/09/2013, 11:00

Big Data is an emerging technology that could benefit from existing developments in cloud technologies. In this talk we evaluate the suitability of the federated cloud infrastructure developed inside EGI to perform Big Data analytics using Hadoop. Due to the size of the tests performed, they represent also a real benchmark of the performance of the EGI Federated Cloud under heavy usage...

18. Using the GC3Pie high-throughput library for model calibration and distributed optimization workflow

sergio maffioletti (UZH)

18/09/2013, 11:20

Model calibration is the process of modifying the input parameters to a computational model to find the best match against an observed set of data (reference model). The proposed talk introduces the GC3Pie optimizer library and shows how it can be used to write robust and scalable calibration models. The main advantage of such a library is the complete transparency w.r.t. the underlying...

191. Analysis of Scientific Cloud Computing requirements

Mr Alvaro Lopez Garcia (CSIC)

18/09/2013, 11:40

While the requirements of enterprise and web applications have driven the development of Cloud computing, some of its key features, such as customized environments and rapid elasticity, could also benet scientic applications. However, neither virtualization techniques nor Cloud-like access to resources is common in scientic computing centers due to the negative perception of the impact that...

212. Cloud use cases and plans in the US - Findings of the XSEDE Cloud Use Survey

John Towns (NCSA/Univ of Illinois)

18/09/2013, 12:00