From y.demchenko at uva.nl Mon May 2 10:33:05 2011 From: y.demchenko at uva.nl (Yuri Demchenko) Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 17:33:05 +0200 Subject: [Isod-bof] TNC2011 BoF "Provisioning infrastructure services on-demand (ISOD): beyond Grids and Clouds" Message-ID: <4DBECEB1.2000908@uva.nl> Dear ISOD-RG members, This is to announce the TNC2011 BoF "Provisioning infrastructure services on-demand: beyond Grids and Clouds" (ISOD-BoF) that will be held on Monday May 16th from 9:00-12:30. The BoF's goal is to present to the TERENA community developments in the area of on-demand infrastructure services provisioning that are currently going on in a number of projects, standardisation bodies, in particular our ISOD-RG activity and other OGF groups, also other international initiatives. Clouds are also positioned as on-demand services provisioning environment and discussion of the related activities on Cloud architecture and provisioning models development will also take place at the BoF. BoF description is available at https://tnc2011.terena.org/core/event/6 and appended below for your convenience. Agenda drafting is in the final stage and will be posted soon. Regards, Yuri ----------------------------------------------- TNC2011 BoF - https://tnc2011.terena.org/core/event/6 9:00-12:30 Monday, May 16, 2011 Title: "Provisioning infrastructure services on-demand: beyond Grids and Clouds" Modern e-Science applications and high-technology industry regularly deal with large volumes of data that must be stored, processed and visualized. This requires dedicated high-speed network infrastructures, which can be provisioned on-demand to support all potential application scenarios. Most Grid/Cloud usage scenarios for collaboration can benefit from combined network and IT resources provisioning. This notion of provisioning an infrastructure on-demand not only improves performance, but also can address such issues as application-centric manageability, consistency of security services, and energy efficiency (which is emerging as a forefront issue). The infrastructure on-demand provisioning model requires that a number of services and resource management systems interoperate at different stages within the whole provisioning process. However, in current practice, different systems and provisioning stages are not connected into a single unified workflow what impedes the definition of a whole provisioning model. This results in a set of inconsistent, disjoint services that then require a significant amount of human intervention to manually integrate them into a single cohesive service. The problem of better supporting collaborative groups of people and wider user communities at all layers of networking and applications infrastructure remains unsolved. The BoF will try to look at future developments and future technologies to solve this problem. This BoF will provide a venue to discuss a wide spectrum of research and technology problems in provisioning infrastructure services on-demand, existing frameworks to support on-demand infrastructure services provisioning, and new emerging business models for infrastructure virtualisation, such as Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). The BoF will host presentations from EU projects and activities such as GEANT3, GEYSERS, NOVI, OGF ISOD Research Group and facilitate information and experience dissemination and exchange with TERENA community. From y.demchenko at uva.nl Tue May 3 18:44:21 2011 From: y.demchenko at uva.nl (Yuri Demchenko) Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 01:44:21 +0200 Subject: [Isod-bof] Technical report on Cloud IaaS Architecture by SNE@UvA Message-ID: <4DC09355.5070001@uva.nl> Dear All, This might be interesting for you to know that recently SNE group at UvA has published a technical report on the Generic Architecture for Cloud IaaS model, Release 1 > http://staff.science.uva.nl/~demch/worksinprogress/sne2011-techreport-2011-03-clouds-iaas-architecture-release1.pdf This is a result of our ongoing research on Cloud computing with primarily focus on Cloud IaaS service model in the framework of a few European and national projects, first of all, GN3 JRA3 Composable Services, GEYSERS, and NOVI who are already contributing to ISOD-RG activity. The proposed architectural framework is primarily focused on Cloud IaaS design and consists of the 3 major components: * Composable Services Architecture (CSA) that intends to provide a conceptual and methodological framework for developing dynamically configurable virtualised infrastructure services; * Infrastructure Services Modeling Framework (ISMF) that provides a basis for the infrastructure resources virtualisation and management, including description, discovery, modeling, composition and monitoring; * Service Delivery Framework (SDF) that provides a basis for defining the whole composable services life cycle management and supporting infrastructure services. At current stage we are interested in comparing our architecture against other existing and being developed frameworks. In particular we already established cooperation with the current NIST Cloud Computing Reference Architecture development. We will be happy also to contribute this research to ISOD-RG as a basis for some discussions on defining infrastructure services, use cases, provisioning models and related issues. We will appreciate comments and contribution. Regards, Yuri Demchenko System and Network Engineering Group University of Amsterdam