Dr. Dapeng Dong (UCC) presented two CloudLightning papers at the 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, CLOSER 2017: Separation of Concerns in Heterogeneous Cloud Environments The majority of existing cloud service management frameworks implement tools, APIs, and strategies for managing the lifecycle of cloud applications and/or resources. …
The CloudLightning Conference presentation recordings are now available on the CloudLightning YouTube channel. Prof. John Morrison (UCC) – “Self-Organisation As A Cloud Resource Management Strategy” Cloud Resource Management is becoming increasingly challenging with the advent of hyperscale computing and the proliferation of heterogeneous hardware. Meanwhile, resource utilisation continues to remain …
The First International Workshop on Cloud-Next Generation (CloudNG 2017) took place on Sunday, 23rd April in Belgrade, Serbia. The workshop was co-located with European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys 2017) and brought together cloud computing researchers and industry. The focus of workshop was on novel cloud architectures, HPC in the cloud, decentralized cloud management, …
The CloudLightning project hosted its first conference in DCU Business School on Tuesday, 11 April. More than 60 academics and industry professionals attended the four-session event to gain insights into HPC, cloud, heterogeneous computing, large scale simulation and scientific computing. The complete conference programme and presentations are available to view …
Wolfgang Dreyer, EMEA General Manager at Rescale, has joined the CloudLightning External Advisory Board. Wolfgang has dedicated his career to HPC solutions. As a founder and CEO of Quant-X, an EMEA HPC solution provider, he grew the company from a team of three people to a global organisation. He delivered several prestigious supercomputing …
Guest Editors: George A. Gravvanis, ggravvan at ee.duth.gr, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece John P. Morrison, j.morrison at cs.ucc.ie, University College of Cork, Ireland Dan C. Marinescu, dcm at cs.ucf.edu, University of Central Florida, USA Scope of the Special Issue: In recent years, HPC workloads have started migrating to the …
Deliverable D5.2.1 – Gateway Service – is now available for download. The Gateway Service is a front-facing component of the CloudLightning system, abstracting the inner workings of the backend components. Gateway Service builds on the components developed in previous work packages and creates the link with current and future work. …
Deliverable D2.2.1 – Integrated Use Cases – has been released last week. This deliverable captures the steps followed in converting the service specifications developed in D2.1.1 into completely automated deployable services that can be readily deployed in the CL heterogeneous resource pool. The previous task identified four application use cases …
The ongoing adoption of Cloud Computing has lead to an increase in the level of complexity of the existing services and inherently new challenges for companies willing to migrate in order to benefit from this new paradigm. Due to this evolving complexity of heterogeneous clouds, new approaches based on the …
University College Cork would like to invite you to contribute to CloudNG’2017 – The First Workshop on Cloud-Next Generation, co-located with Eurosys 2017, the workshop will take place in Belgrade, Serbia on April 23rd. The workshop will attempt to capture current and proposed solutions to Cloud and Data Centre problems. At scale, the problems …
