From Grid to
Cloud Computing
Integration of Amazon Cloud in g-Eclipse
Markus Knauer (EclipseSource | Innoopract)
Harald Kornmayer (NEC Laboratories Europe)
© 2008 by Knauer/Kornmayer; made available under the EPL v1.0 | 19th of Nov. 2008

From Grid to Cloud ?
 The “Grid Vision” is
 “To solve together a (scientific) problem, by connecting the
distributed resources (of scientists) within different administrative
domains dynamically and coordinately with the help of fast
networks to build a „virtual computing center/organization”
(According to Foster/Kesselman; end of last century)
 The Cloud Vision is
 not so well defined!!
 Many Grid slides showed the virtual
computing center as a “Cloud”
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What makes the Cloud a hype?
Pay-per-use
Virtualization
Web2.0
SaaS
Grid Green Computing
Utility Computing
IaaS
PaaS
SaaS – Software as a Service
PaaS – Platform as a Service
IaaS – Infrastructure as a Service
 Business-like spoken
 “organisations are switching from company-owned hardware and
software assets to per-use service-based models“ (Gartner 2008)
 transform CAPEX to OPEX
 “people's applications and information are going to be accessible to
them from anywhere because it will all be up there in the Cloud.”
(Eric Schmidt/Google)
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Future Cloud systems blueprint
Web 2.0 User front ends
 10000 foot view
Pay-per-use SaaS Utility
computing
PaaS
Grid
Grid
Pay-per-use IaaS
Green Comp. Virtualization
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The market
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The Cloud use cases
g-Eclipse
submit jobs
monitor jobs check jobs
 Not different from the Grid
organize workflow
user use cases of g-Eclipse
replicate data
create/delete data  Manage data
visualize data operator
check resources
 Manage computing
build workflow
infrastructure
monitor resources
developer code application
monitor application
configure resources
 Tooling for seamless
benchmark resources access is required
deploy application
manage VO
debug/test application
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g-Eclipse and the Cloud
 Provides a middleware/infrastructure independent
model for Grid access g-Eclipse
 Including dedicated views and wizards
Implementation Layer
 Support as of today two Grid middlewares (Middleware)
 gLite
 Grid middleware of the LHC accelerator (CERN)
 GRIA
Abstraction Layer
 (service-oriented middleware to support B2B
collaborations; Core UI
based on WSRF)
 Interesting question:
 Can we integrate the infrastructure from Amazon Eclipse Platform
Web Services (AWS) in the g-Eclipse framework??
 Simple Storage Service (S3) Eclipse Extension Point
 Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2)
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g-Eclipse – the project
 www.geclipse.eu  www.eclipse.org/geclipse
 Project funded by the European  Technology project at the
Commission Eclipse Foundation
(INFSO-32347)
 Release 1.0.0 with stable API
 8 partners scheduled for end of 2008
 Including AWS support
 Gathering community
 i.e. in different Grid projects
worldwide
 by collaborating with other
Eclipse projects
 Until end of 2008
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Prerequisites for the demo
 Amazon AWS Account
 http://aws.amazon.com/
 One of the available 3.4 Eclipse Downloads
 g-Eclipse Framework
 http://download.eclipse.org/technology/geclipse/updates/1.0/
 g-Eclipse Amazon Webservice Integration
 http://www.geclipse.eu/update/1.0/
 We work on moving it to eclipse.org
 Switch to the g-Eclipse User Perspective and start creating a
new Grid Project
 AMI with image ID: ami-2766824e (or ask for an updated one)
 You can connect e.g. via ssh to user 'tomcat' with PW 'EclipseCon'
 See README in /home/tomcat
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Demo mode
 Create a Grid project for Amazon Web service
 Including the definition of a Virtual Organisation
 Access data at S3 resources
 Based on EFS
 Secure authorisation and interoperability
 Start a Cloud computing instance at EC2
 Open seamless connection
 Start OSGi remotely
 Deploy bundles into a running Tomcat with p2
 Enjoy a simple RAP-based application
 Screenshots and (movies)
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Summary
 g-Eclipse
 is an extensible framework which enables intuitive and easy access for
various Grid actors
 relies on the Eclipse framework
 Provides Grid model to seamlessly integrate Grid and Cloud resources
 can be extended to support different Grid middleware systems.
 gLite, GRIA, AWS are already available
 Grid computing and Cloud computing are similar in many senses
 Grid + Cloud
 Groud
 g-Eclipse can contribute to the future Eclipse runtime framework
supporting IaaS, SaaS, PaaS
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Outlook – Possible Eclipse Cloud stack
RCP
Web 2.0
RCP User front end RAP
RT STP
Pay-per-use SaaS Utility
computing
ECF
PaaS p2
Grid
Equinox
g-Eclipse
Grid
Pay-per-use IaaS
Green Comp. Virtualization
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How to contribute
 Use our tool and send us feedback!
 Webpage www.eclipse.org/geclipse or www.geclipse.eu
 Developer mailing list
 https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/geclipse-dev
 Bugzilla
 https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs
 Collaborate and provide patches for other middleware systems
 Contact {at} geclipse.eu
 Acknowledgement
 Thanks to Scott Lewis for providing parts of the demo!
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