Tunis, Tunisia, June 2012 Cloud Research Activities Pr. Mohamed JEMNI Computing Center Al Khawarizmi (CCK) Research Laboratory LaTICE ITU Workshop on “Cloud Computing” (Tunis, Tunisia, June 2012)

Outline CCK : Toward service virtualization LaTICE: Cloud research areas : from Grid to the Cloud TNGrid BonjourGrid Resource management Supply of services Interoperability of cloud SLA Management Tunis, Tunisia, June

Computing Center el Khawarizmi (CCK)  The CCK was established in  As an Internet Service Provider, since  The CCK has about 60 employees; 30 technical employees and 30 administrative employees.  The CCK took care of the implementation and The development of the University National Network and of Research for the sector of higher Education and scientific research.

The number of students in public higher education institutions is more than students. 200 institutions of higher education and research, among them 24 Higher Institutes of Technological Studies (ISET). 25 Research centers, 30 administrations and 150 university cities. 147 laboratories and 650 Research Units Computing Center el Khawarizmi Target population

The CCK offers various platforms coupled with a protected infrastructure and compatible with the main technologies used for the web and a multitude of web services.  Management of national applications  Management of specific applications Computing Center el Khawarizmi Powerful platforms

Computing Center el Khawarizmi Gate for e-government

Computing Center el Khawarizmi Online collaboration

RNU2 : Toward the virtualisation and the private Cloud

TNGrid : Tunisian National Grid The TNGrid project is an initiative of the research lab. of Technologies of Information and Communication (LaTICE) at the Higher School of Sciences and Technology of Tunis (ESSTT) of the University of Tunis TNGrid offers an open and free Tunisian National Grid for researchers The grid computing platform is based on institutional resources and volunteer participations. Tunis, Tunisia, June

TNGrid : Tunisian National Grid Tunis, Tunisia, June

International projects LaTICE research lab. is involved in grid computing research axis since LaTICE research lab. is working and is participating in EUMEDGRID projects coordinated by INFN (Italy) since We have a Registration Authority, managed by Mohamed Jemni, with INFN CA We are setting up the TNGrid CA (Certification Authority) and to be fully operational just after our accreditation process with EuGridPMA. Tunis, Tunisia, June

Tunisian Node on EumeGrid A grid site connected to EumedGrid-Support 3 operational services : CE, SE, WN Visible on Gstat and RTM tool Tunis, Tunisia, June

Applications on Grid Porting 3 applications to the grid AFP3DFace : Automatic extraction of Feature Points from a 3D face Parallel Flow Shop Parallel : Distributed Algorithm for the Permutation Flow Shop Scheduling Problem Grid FFT : Grid Application for Computing Multidimensional Fast Fourier Transform Tunis, Tunisia, June 2012

Cloud research areas Resource management Supply of services Interoperability of cloud SLA management Tunis, Tunisia, June

Resource Management BonjourGrid A decentralized middleware to manage desktop grid resources Developed by LaTICE in collaboration with LIPN (Paris13) A user can construct his own computing element Boinc, Condor, XtremWeb Number of workers Tunis, Tunisia, June

Resource Management BonjourGrid as a cloud system (PaaS) SlapOS system to deploy BonjourGrid instances Tunis, Tunisia, June

Resource Management Tunis, Tunisia, June SlapOS Master SlapOS Master SlapOS Client 1 SlapOS Client 1 Installation of required platforms SlapOS Client 2 SlapOS Client 2 SlapOS Client 3 SlapOS Client 3 … SlapOS Client n SlapOS Client n Execute the requested application Boinc/Condor/XtremWeb Master Boinc/Condor/XtremWeb Workers

Tunis, Tunisia, June Supply of services Predict the number of necessary instances for the application Queuing Theory, Control Theory, Statistical Machine Learning Automatic allocation mechanisms Migration of virtual machines Optimize the data transfer

Interoperability of clouds Various criteria Description and application deployment: various APIs owners! Architecture: centralized, hierarchical & distributed Mechanisms of resource management: access to resources and task scheduling. Security: multiple security mechanisms How to normalize all these criteria? Tunis, Tunisia, June

SLA management (Auto Trader) SLA: Service Level Agreement, a contract agreement between the client and service provider The step of negotiation is necessary between the client and supplier Research New Scheduling models taking into account economic constraints Auto traders to establish the negotiation phase Tunis, Tunisia, June