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CERN School of Computing
2012 13-24 August, Uppsala, Sweden |
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Virtualisation and Clouds |
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Description |
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Lecture 1 |
Introduction to virtualisation technology First lecture covers the definition and description of the various modes of virtualization techniques used in computing science, also from a historical perspective. Later we present the most recent advances and technology trends, in particular we will single out the server virtualization as a key enabling technology behind the emerging cloud computing paradigm. |
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Lecture 2 |
Applications of the virtualisation technology Second lecture deals with possible applications of server virtualization technology to support LHC computing effort. We will be using the CernVM project as an example to illustrate how a virtual machine can be crafted to act as an end-user work environment as well as job hosting environment running on cloud or Grid infrastructure. |
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Exercise 1 Exercise 2 |
Using a virtual machine for data analysis The student will exercise how to setup a virtual machine and perform some simple analysis task (using ROOT for example) on a local host. Later we will show how the same task can be achieved using cloud resources such as Amazon EC2. |
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Prerequisite and References |
Desirable Prerequisite Very basic C++ and Linux/Unix environment is desirable. Some familiarity with ROOT will help. |
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