1. New Ventures in Research, Engineering, and Educational Computing
New Ventures in Research, Engineering, and Educational Computing. George Turner, Chief Systems Architect Research Technologies/UITS, Pervasive Technologies Institute Indiana University Open Research Cloud Declaration Workshop Boston, MA May2017
funded by the National Science Foundation
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2. What is Jetstream? User-friendly, widely accessible cloud environment
User-selectable library of preconfigured virtual machines
Interactive computing
Software maintained by domain specialist
No need for system administration skills
Programmable cyberinfrastructure
Go beyond batch computing
Implement modern cloud computing techniques
The primary goal of the XD program is to enable major advances in science and engineering research, in the integration of research and education, and in broadening participation in science and engineering by under-represented groups, by providing researchers and educators with usable access to extreme-scale digital resources beyond those typically available on a typical campus, together with the interfaces, consulting support, and training necessary to facilitate their use.

3. Platform Overview Atmosphere API Globus Auth Atmo Services
XSEDE Accounting
OpenStack
Ceph
Web App
OpenStack API access
Platform Overview
Agave API access
(work in progress)
S3 access to Ceph
(work in progress)
Indiana University
TACC
Note the multiple touch points for users, won’t dive deep into the architecture

4. Platform Overview Atmosphere API Globus Auth Atmo Services
XSEDE Accounting
OpenStack
Ceph
Web App
OpenStack API access
Platform Overview
Agave API access
(work in progress)
S3 access to Ceph
(work in progress)
Indiana University
TACC
Note the multiple touch points for users, won’t dive deep into the architecture

5. Platform Overview Atmosphere API Globus Auth Atmo Services
XSEDE Accounting
OpenStack
Ceph
Web App
OpenStack API access
Platform Overview
Agave API access
(work in progress)
S3 access to Ceph
(work in progress)
Indiana University
TACC
Note the multiple touch points for users, won’t dive deep into the architecture

6. What is Jetstream?
Reproducibility: store, publish via IU Scholarworks (DOI)
Cloudy: clouds are more the just virtual machines (VM)
Old way: robust (expensive) infrastructure, weak (cheap) software
Cloudy way: commodity infrastructure, robust software
Cows, not pets :
pets have state, you name them, put forth great amount of care
cows do not have state, you intend to have high turnover, you give them numbers instead of names
Primary goal is to expand the user base of NSF’s eXtreme Digital (XD) program resources beyond the current community of users.
The primary goal of the XD program is to enable major advances in science and engineering research, in the integration of research and education, and in broadening participation in science and engineering by under-represented groups, by providing researchers and educators with usable access to extreme-scale digital resources beyond those typically available on a typical campus, together with the interfaces, consulting support, and training necessary to facilitate their use.

7. What is Jetstream? (cont)
“Long tail” of the Science
Large HPC systems requiring sophisticated
distributed memory programming skills
~3% researchers supported by the NSF
Problem size
Capable users
few
many
Everyone else
Mostly node level parallelism

8. What is Jetstream? (cont)
Software layers
Atmosphere web interface
library of images, genertic, domain specific
simplify VM administration
Openstack: software tools for building and managing cloud computing platforms for public and private clouds.
KVM hypervisor: what the VMs run on
Ceph: storage platform that stores data on a single distributed computer cluster, and provides interfaces for object-, block- and file-level storage.
Operating systems: CentOS, Ubuntu, Windows?
Applications; e.g. software developed by the domain specialist, gateways, etc.

9. Jetstream System Overview (cont.)
Jetstream-IU
Internet2
XSEDE
Jetstream-AZ
100 Gb/s
Jetstream-TACC
10 Gb/s

10. Production Cloud Hardware (per site)
Number
Specifications
Function (IU)
Dell PowerEdge
M630 blades
320
2X Intel E5-2680v3 “Haswell”
GHz
128 GB RAM
2 TB local disk
Compute hosts
OpenStack services
R630 1U server 7
Cluster management
High Availability
Databases
RabbitMQ
R730xd 2U servers 20
64 GB RAM
48 TB storage for Ceph pool
~1 PB Ceph storage
Dell S6000-ON network switches 9
Gb/s ports
Top of Rack
Spine

11. Jetstream’s Atmosphere Interface
(no login required at this point)

12. Jetstream’s Atmosphere Interface
Pick identity provider
Globus Auth under the hood

13. Jetstream’s Atmosphere Interface
Authenticate with the
chosen identity provider

14. Jetstream’s Atmosphere Interface
user’s home dashboard

15. Jetstream’s Atmosphere Interface
user’s project dashboard

16. Jetstream’s Atmosphere Interface
user’s project details

17. Jetstream’s Atmosphere Interface
starting an instance

18. Jetstream’s Atmosphere Interface
pick an image from library

19. Jetstream’s Atmosphere Interface
Instance’s details; e.g.
name, flavor, allocation, etc.

20. Jetstream’s Atmosphere Interface
Instance is building

21. Jetstream’s Atmosphere Interface
…still building

22. Jetstream’s Atmosphere Interface
…still building

23. Jetstream’s Atmosphere Interface
Instance ready for use

24. Jetstream’s Atmosphere Interface
User’s instance dashboard

25. Jetstream’s Atmosphere Interface
User’s instance dashboard
Instance’s details

26. Jetstream’s Atmosphere Interface
User’s instance dashboard
Action requests

27. Jetstream’s Atmosphere Interface
User’s instance dashboard
Action requests
Open Web Shell

28. Jetstream’s Atmosphere Interface
Web Shell access to instance
External ssh access also available

29. Jetstream’s Atmosphere Interface
User’s instance dashboard
Action requests
Open Web Desktop

30. VNC access also available
Jetstream’s Atmosphere Interface
Web desktop access to instance
VNC access also available

31. Challenges of the past; thoughts for the future
Proposed as an easy to use platform for domain researchers;
but, huge demand for domain developers ready to implement cloudy technologies
Need to make the case that cloudy resources have benefit

32. Challenges of the past; thoughts for the future (cont.)
Users not aware of new (cloudy) ways of doing things
They’re responsible for start/stopping instances
Burning up your allocation unintentionally
What’s ephemeral & what’s persistent
You blew away the instance and the data was not on persistent storage
The difference between file systems and objects
There is not a giant workbench (scratch) filesystem
Shared volumes are critical

33. Challenges of the past; thoughts for the future (cont.)
Users expectations
Jetstream/OpenStack is not AWS
We will not have the fancy bells-&-whistles
Support from within the domain; this is a plus

34. Challenges of the past; thoughts for the future (cont.)
Protocol for image templates
IU, BRIDGES, Nectar collaborating
Can’t be a library of images; bit rot
Cloud-init
good starting point
distro differences
Beyond the image

35. Questions? Project website: http://jetstream-cloud.org/
Project
Direct
License Terms
Turner, G Jetstream,New Ventures in Research, Engineering and Educational Computing: Open Research Cloud Declaration, Boston MA. Also available at:
Jetstream is supported by NSF award (Craig Stewart, IU, PI)
XSEDE is supported by NSF award (John Towns, UIUC, PI)
This research was supported in part by the Indiana University Pervasive Technology Institute, which was established with the assistance of a major award from the Lilly Endowment, Inc. Opinions presented here are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the views of the NSF, IUPTI, IU, or the Lilly Endowment, Inc.
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36. Challenges of the past; thoughts for the future (cont.)