FermiCloud On-Demand Services: Data Intensive Computing on
Public and Private Clouds
Steven Timm
Associate head for Cloud Computing of the Grid and Cloud
Services Department at Fermilab
Date and Location: Thursday, March 13th,
2014, 10:15am - 11:15am @ SB 220.
Abstract
The FermiCloud project exists to provide on-demand computing and
data movement services to the various experiments at Fermilab.
We face a dynamically changing demand for compute resources and data
movement, which we meet by enabling our users to run on our own
site, remote grid sites, and cloud sites. We also instantiate
on-demand data movement and web caching services to support this
remote analysis. In this presentation we will briefly
summarize some of the recent research results of our recent students
and outline the challenges of the research problems in our current
project. These include coordinated launches of compute nodes
plus data movement servers, interoperability with new commercial
clouds, and exploration of new distributed storage models.
Biography
Dr. Steven Timm is the associate head for Cloud Computing of the
Grid and Cloud Services Department at Fermilab. He has led the
FermiCloud project since its inception in early 2010, and been a
member of the Fermilab staff since 2000. In this role he
coordinates working with visiting students and guest researchers
from other laboratories doing research and development on innovative
techniques in distributed computing and cloud computing. He
completed his PhD. Studies at Carnegie Mellon University in 1995.