Colloquium Details
Cloud Computing for Science
| Author: | Kate Keahey Argonne National Laboratory |
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| Date: | October 14, 2010 |
| Time: | 15:30 |
| Location: | 220 Deschutes |
| Host: | Allen Malony |
Abstract
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Cloud computing is emerging as a viable alternative to the acquisition and management of physical resources. The emergence of this new model raises many questions. How can it be best adapted for use by scientific applications? Does it, or will it ever, provide sufficient capabilities for high-performance applications? How will it change our work patterns? What challenges need to be overcome and what is its overall potential for accelerating science?
In this talk, I will give an overview of the challenges and potential of cloud computing projects in science as well as the way in which the Nimbus project at Argonne National Laboratory addresses them. I will describe what attracted various scientific communities to cloud computing and give examples of how they integrated this new model into their work. I will also describe how scientific projects collaborating with us inspire technological development and take advantage of various Nimbus features. Finally, I will discuss the emerging technology trends and discuss how they can benefit science.
Biography
Kate Keahey is a Scientist in the Distributed Systems Lab at Argonne National Laboratory and a Fellow at the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago. Kate pioneered the use of virtual machines in distributed computing which grew into Infrastrucutre-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing. A vocal advocate of cloud computing for science, she led numerous projects focused on overcoming barriers to its adoption as well as proposing and exploring now interaction patterns emerging in this context. Kate created and leads the Nimbus project, an open source cloud computing platform providing Infrastructure-as-a-Service as well as higher-level services for scientific communities.