CPET 581/499 Cloud Computing: Technologies and Enterprise IT Strategies

Spring 2015 References

 

Lecture 1: Jan. 15-22

1.       Chapter 1 Distributed System Models and Enabling Technologies of the Text Book: Distributed and Cloud Computing, by K. Hwang, G C. Fox, and J.J. Dongarra, published Elsevier/Morgan Kaufmann, 2012

2.       Computer History Museum, http://www.computerhistory.org/

3.       The Coming Data Deluge, by Paul McFedries, Feb. 2011, IEEE Spectrum, http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/innovation/the-coming-data-deluge

4.       Bridging the Data Deluge Gap, by Eric Savitz, 2012/8/23 – Forbes, http://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2012/08/23/bridging-the-data-deluge-gap/

5.       E-Science, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Science

6.       Microsoft Research: eScience, http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/escience/

7.       IDC Find Growth, Consolidation, and Changing Ownership Patterns in Worldwide Datacenter Forecast, Nov. 10, 2014,  http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS25237514

8.       Microsoft Data Center, video, Microsoft Azure – Microsoft Cloud, 10:16 min, Feb. 16, 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUlDyhBc_Rg 

 

Lectures 2 &3 : Jan. 22-29

9.       NIST Definition of Cloud Computing, Special publication 800-145, by Peter Mell and Timothy Grance, Sept., 2011, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, http://www.nist.gov/itl/csd/cloud-102511.cfm

10.   NIST Cloud Computing Standards and Roadmap, Version 1.0, Specification 500-291, July 2011, http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=909024

11.   NIST Government Cloud Computing Technology Roadmap Vol I, Special Pub. 500-293, Nov. 2011, http://www.nist.gov/itl/cloud/upload/SP_500_293_volumeI-2.pdf

12.   NIST Cloud Computing Reference Architecture, Sept. 2011, http://www.nist.gov/customcf/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=909505

13.   Business Use Case, NIST Information Technology Laboratory, http://www.nist.gov/itl/cloud/bususecases.cfm

14.   6.4.7 Use Case: Orchestrated Processes Across Clouds and Enterprise Systems: Possible Standards: DMTF (The Distributed Management Task Force, http://www.dmtf.org/)  and OGF (Open Grid Forum, http://www.gridforum.org/gf/group_info/view.php?group=dcifed-wg )

n  Existing standards to support this include

n  WS-Agreement, http://www.ogf.org/documents/GFD.107.pdf

n  Job Submission Description Language (JSDL), http://www.gridforum.org/documents/GFD.56.pdf

n  GLUE Information Model, http://redmine.ogf.org/dmsf_files/102

n  OGSA Basic Execution Service, http://www.ogf.org/documents/GFD.108.pdf

n  OCCI (Open Cloud Computing Interface) – Infrastructure, http://www.gridforum.org/documents/GFD.184.pdf, http://occi-wg.org/tag/specification/

n  Usage Record. https://www.ogf.org/documents/GFD.98.pdf

n  WS-BPEL 2.0, http://bpel.xml.org/specifications

15.    6.4.8 Use Case: Discovering Cloud Resources

n  RFD (Resource Description Framework) is a standard formalism for describing resources as triples consisting of “subject-Predicate-Object”. (http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-concepts/ )

n  Dublin Core Medatdata Initiative, http://dublincore.org/

n  ebXML Registry Information Model (ebRIM) actually defined both a description language and a discovery method, ebXML Registry Services (ebRS); http://www.ebxml.org/

n  ID-WSF (Identity Web Service Framework), http://www.projectliberty.org/resource_center/specifications/liberty_alliance_id_wsf_2_0_specifications/

n  LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol), http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4512.txt

n  UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration), https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=uddi-spec

n  CSW (Catalogue Service),  OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) standards, http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/is

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Lecture 4 Reference, Feb. 5, 2015

Commercial Computer Cluster

n  HP Cluster Platforms, http://www8.hp.com/us/en/products/servers/scalable-systems/clusterplatform.html

n  Oracle Solaries Cluster, http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/solaris/cluster/overview/index.html

n  IBM Cluster Systems, http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/clusters/resources.html

n  Amazon HPC on AWS, http://aws.amazon.com/hpc-applications/ (Video)

          Computer aided engineering, molecular modeling, genome analysis, numerical modeling

n  Windows Azure, http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/

n  IBM Platform Computing (HPC Clouds), http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/technicalcomputing/platformcomputing/index.html

n  IBM Cluster System Management, http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/software/csm/

n  ION HPC – E5 Cluster, http://hpc.ioncomputer.com/ion/entrypoint.cfm?referrer=GoogleAd_HPC-2&referrer=GoogleAd_HPC-2

n  The Linux Documentation Project, http://www.tldp.org/

n  Building a Beowulf Cluster in just 13 steps, http://www.linux.com/community/blogs/133-general-linux/9401

n  Linux Cluster Overview, Blaise Barney, LLNL, https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/linux_clusters/

 

Linux SSI

n  Red Hat Linux Cluster using Red Hat Global File System (GFS), https://access.redhat.com/articles/40051 

n  OpenSSI Clusters for Linux, http://www.openssi.org/cgi-bin/view?page=openssi.html

n  StarCluster, open source cluster-computing toolkit, http://start.mit.edu/

n  HP PolyServe Cluster File Serving System for Linux, http://h18006.www1.hp.com/storage/software/clusteredfs/pdfs/LinFileServing_Utility_Datasheet.pdf

AWS Cluster Compute Instances, Jul 13, 2010, http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2010/07/13/announcing-cluster-compute-instances-for-amazon-ec2/

Cluster Systems

n  Open SSI Cluster Project,

n  IBM z/VM, SSI and Live Guest Relocation, http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg248006.html?Open

n  Ubuntu SSI Cluster, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EasyUbuntuClustering/UbuntuKerrighedClusterGuide

n  IBM Blue Gene Project page, http://www.research.ibm.com/bluegene/index.html

n  Linux Cluster Overview, Blaise Barney, LLNL, https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/linux_clusters

n  Berkeley NOW (Network of Workstations), 1995, http://now.cs.berkeley.edu/

n  Ames Lab/ISU Cluster (U.S. Dept of Energy), http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/Projects/parallel_computing/cluster_examples.html

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