[occi-wg] New Discussion Group on High Performance and Grid Computing in the Cloud

[Ignacio Martin Llorente]

Dear OCCIers,

I know that many of you are highly interested in the application on  
Cloud to enhance HPC and Grid computing infrastructures. We have  
created a google group "HPCcloud: High Performance and Grid Computing  
in the Cloud"  (http://groups.google.com/group/HPCcloud). The purpose  
of this group is not to define standards but to present experiences  
and scenarios by individuals, organizations and projects to illustrate  
how Cloud computing can enhance the different types of distributed and  
high performance computing infrastructures in science and engineering.  
I hope that as result of the discussion we will contribute new use  
cases to OCCI-WG.

The group covers the following aspects about innovative potential,  
benefits and challenges of new Cloud technologies and services in High  
Performance Computing (HPC) and Grid Computing research and business:

- Cultural, security, political and legal barriers to implementing  
Cloud provisioning models in HPC and Grid environments
- Architectures for integration of Cloud technologies and services  
with HPC and Grid infrastructures
- Standardization of interactions between HPC and Grid platforms and  
Cloud infrastructures
- Limitations of existing Cloud services and technologies for the  
capability and capacity computing demands of the HPC and Grid  
communities in the execution of both tightly-coupled HPC and loosely- 
coupled HTC applications
- HPC Clouds offering platforms with HPC devices and configurations,  
and Scientific Clouds offering specific services for the scientific  
and technical computing community
- Impact of virtualization on the performance of memory, CPU and I/O  
intensive, and latency sensitive applications, and virtualization  
support for specialized communication transports
- Service and infrastructure scalability and elasticity management for  
the efficient execution of virtualized HPC and Grid platforms
- Challenges of porting HPC applications to the Cloud and new  
computing paradigms for HPC on Cloud

Ignacio
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Ignacio M. Llorente, Full Professor (Catedratico): http://dsa-research.org/doku.php?id=people:llorente
DSA Research Group:  web http://dsa-research.org and blog http://blog.dsa-research.org
Globus GridWay Metascheduler: http://www.GridWay.org
OpenNebula Virtual Infrastructure Engine: http://www.OpenNebula.org