A Platform to Deploy Customized Scientific Virtual Infrastructures on the Cloud

Miguel Caballer, Damian Segrelles, Germán Moltó, and Ignacio Blanquer. A Platform to Deploy Customized Scientific Virtual Infrastructures on the Cloud. In 6th International Workshop on Science Gateways, IWSG 2014, pp. 42–47, 2014.

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Abstract

This paper presents a software platform to dynamically deploy complex scientific virtual computing infrastructures, on top of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Clouds. The platform orchestrates different services to provision the virtual computing resources. It dynamically installs the appropriate software to satisfy the requirements of a researcher, both on public and on-premise Clouds. The paper also describes two case studies to deploy complex infrastructures such as a Hadoop cluster on which to execute the BLAST biomedical application or single-node infrastructures with a very specific installation and configuration process to perform NGS sequencing. This platform promotes a better use of on-premise hardware resources of a research center by allocating the computing resources just-in-time to the specific life time of the virtual infrastructures.

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@inproceedings{Caballer2014pdc,
   abstract = {This paper presents a software platform to dynamically deploy complex scientific virtual computing infrastructures, on top of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Clouds. The platform orchestrates different services to provision the virtual computing resources. It dynamically installs the appropriate software to satisfy the requirements of a researcher, both on public and on-premise Clouds. The paper also describes two case studies to deploy complex infrastructures such as a Hadoop cluster on which to execute the BLAST biomedical application or single-node infrastructures with a very specific installation and configuration process to perform NGS sequencing. This platform promotes a better use of on-premise hardware resources of a research center by allocating the computing resources just-in-time to the specific life time of the virtual infrastructures.},
   author = {Miguel Caballer and Damian Segrelles and Germán Moltó and Ignacio Blanquer},
   doi = {10.1109/IWSG.2014.14},
   booktitle = {6th International Workshop on Science Gateways, IWSG 2014},
   pages = {42-47},
   title = {A Platform to Deploy Customized Scientific Virtual Infrastructures on the Cloud},
   url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6882067&sortType%3Dasc_p_Sequence%26filter%3DAND%28p_IS_Number%3A6882053%29},
   year = {2014}
}