Virtualization users workshop

Europe/Berlin
DESY

DESY

Room 4A Desy Notkestraße 85 22607 Hamburg Germany
Owen Synge (DESY)
Description
This Virtualization users workshop is intended for sharing experiences with using virtualization in various areas related to the Grid community. It is intended that this workshop should focus on usage in the Grid community so as not to overlap with other virtualization workshops and conferences.

Xen appears to be the most common virtualization software used by grid developers and researchers at present but we should not limit our scope to exclude other virtualization technologies although we expect that Xen will dominate this workshop.

Many sites have independently developed virtualization management tools which should be compared and assessed, some may overlap but many will undoubtedly for fill different niches. Establishing a clear picture of all current usage scenarios will be a goal of this workshop.

Many groups have put virtualization to different uses. Virtualization for testing purposes is becoming more well known, but a growing number of virtual grid service nodes are being deployed in production.

Consolidating services, and using virtualization to make better use of hardware is a reoccurring thread of interest. Many people also propose that virtual domains could be use the Unix / Linux API as a common platform upon which to support grid jobs.

This workshop will hopefully bring together the Grid communities virtualization experiments so we can all proceed quicker on any potential gains to be made from virtualization.

  • Tuesday, 16 January
    • 09:00 12:00
      Current Usage Scenarios

      Development and training for distributed services. Testing
      and development useage.

      • 09:00
        Virtualization Introduction and Current usage at DESY 20m
        I brief introduction to Virtualization and what we use it for
        Speaker: Mr Owen Synge (Desy)
        Slides
      • 09:20
        xen first steps 20m
        Sven Sternberger talks about the Xen setup at desy
        Slides
      • 09:40
        Usage of virtualization in gLite certification 10m
        IT Department Grid Deployment Group CERN CH-1211 Geneva 23
        Speaker: Andreas Unterkircher (CERN)
        Slides
      • 09:50
        PBS and Xen at the MetaCentre 1h 20m
        irtualization of services PBS and Xen and future uses of Xen
        Speaker: Mr Miroslav Ruda (Cesnet)
        Slides
      • 11:10
        Running different operating systems on the same worker nodes 10m
        Speaker: Volker Büge (Universität Karlsruhe)
        Slides
      • 11:20
        Grid-Ireland virtualisation usage 10m
        Current usage: Grid-Ireland virtualisation usage: virtual gateways; testgrid certification testbed; elearning testbed; colinux condor pool
        Speaker: Dr Stephen Childs (Trinity College Dublin)
        Slides
      • 11:30
        Running different grid-sites on the same machine using XEN 10m
        Speaker: Mr Oliver Oberst (Universitaet Karlsruhe)
        Slides
    • 13:00 17:00
      Tools

      Image cataloging and sharing. Image interoperability. Check
      pointing

      Management systems - monitoring, network setup, running
      services on VMs.

      Image creation on demand

      • 13:00
        Globus and virtualisation 20m
        Speaker: Dr Kate Keahey
        Slides
      • 13:20
        Tools: GridBuilder web interface, ongoing work with Quattor 20m
        Grid-Ireland virtualisation tools
        Speaker: Dr Stephen Childs (Trinity College Dublin)
        Slides
  • Wednesday, 17 January
    • 09:00 12:00
      Performance

      Application benchmarking. Stability, aging, persistent VMs
      running services.

      • 09:20
        Luebeck grid site Virtualization of worker nodes. 20m
        Using Xen to setup the worker nodes for Luebeck grid site.
        Speaker: Mr Daniel Bayer (University of Lübeck, Institut für Neuro- und Bioinformatik)
        Slides
    • 13:00 17:00
      Future Uses

      Security impact, positive and negative. Pilot jobs and VMs
      Cycle harvesting, boinc, condor (?)
      Batch systems + Virtualization, VMs as jobs
      VOBOX & 'edge service' implementations

      • 13:00
        planning the future of METACenter 20m
        Virtualization of services PBS and Xen and future uses of Xen
        Speaker: Mr Jiri Denemark (Masaryk University and CESNET)
        Slides
      • 13:20
        Trusted Platform Module 20m
        We would like to present our ideas of usage of TPM under the xen? The presentation consists of some introduction to the TPM and to the TPM in the xen and also overview of that topics: - Trusted xen image - Encrypted xen image - Secured applications/web services under the xen
        Speaker: Mr Michal Prochazka (CESNET z.s.p.o.)
        Slides
      • 13:40
        KnowARC : dynamic runtime environments for the ARC grid middleware 20m
        Currently, as a member of KnowARC (www.knowarc.eu) I'm working on dynamic runtime environments for the ARC grid middleware. We now got a working prototype. We intend to support virtualisation of the rte soon, but currently it is done without any kind of virtualisation.
        Speaker: Mr Daniel Bayer (University of Lübeck, Institut für Neuro- und Bioinformatik)
        Slides