Combining Grid and Cloud for e-sciences applications

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Introduction

It’s well known that the developments environments used in Grid and Cloud are very different. The key differences between these two platforms are based on theoretical concepts as well as implementations. The aim of this tutorial is to propose a set of concepts and tools used to bridge these two large-scale distributed systems. Concretely speaking, we propose a set of libraries used to develop high performance applications that could be deployed on Grid and Cloud without any re-writing. The following platforms/middlewares will be used during the practical part:

  • the XtremWeb-CH volunteer computing platform (XWCH: www.xtremwebch.net)
  • the cloud platforms: Amazon, Azure and Venus-C

The tutorial is composed of theoretical and practical parts. The theoretical part will deal with the following aspects:

  • Grid vs. Cloud computing,
  • Overview of XWCH, Amazon, Venus-C and Azure platforms
  • How to develop applications for XWCH, Venus-C and Azure platforms

During the practical part, the students will be able to:

  • Write his/her own application
  • Deploy his/her application by using one or several of these bridges: XWCH/Amazon and XWCH/Azure, Venus-C/Azure