A Blog of the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
A big issue in cloud computing is knowing when you should upstart more VMs or switch to a more powerful virtual machine in order to process user requests efficiently. Monitoring system utilization is very important for detecting if VM utilization is too high to guarantee stable and high performing IT services. But how can one […]
Motivation Besides the work in national projects where we engage with and transfer our knowledge to local SMEs, a major focus always lay on international or more precisely european projects where we’re currently involved in a number of FP7 Future Internet projects. Our goal is to push the progress of this so called Future Internet […]
We’re delighted to announce that Dr. Seán Murphy (twitter, linkedin) has just joined ICCLab. Seán has been a friend of the lab for many years – somehow before the lab actually existed! – and his ideas and energy are very much in line with the infamous ICCLab spirit.
This blogpost aims to give you a short introduction to InfiniBand. At the end you should have a rough overview over the technology, much of its terminology and on how to program a very simple RDMA application with IB verbs.
The first part explains the basic characteristics/properties of the InfiniBand technology and the physical parts that a network consists of. The second part takes a closer look at the logical parts of the technology that are needed for communication. In the third and last part I’ll explain the structure of a simple IB verbs application.
The panel sessions will be webcast (audio and video). Questions submitted via a Twitter feed using the hashtag #ITUWORLDLIVE or by SMS or through the ITU Telecom webcast portal will be displayed on the Moderator’s laptop screen during the session. Mobile Cloud Networks Thursday, 21 November 2013, 16:15 – 17:45, Jupiter 9 Innovative services and […]
This blog post describes the installation of OpenStack Grizzly with help of the Stackforge Puppet-Modules on CentOS 6.4 – with the use of network namespaces. The setup consists of a controller/network and a compute node. Of course additional compute nodes can later be added as needed.
The ICCLab believes in the future for Software Defined Networking for Data centers as well as for using SDN inside a common cloud cluster. We will be runnging regular meetings with the goal of exchanging knowledge and ideas with others. For more information you can join the LinkedIn Group or contact one of the chairs directly: Irena […]
5th Swiss OpenStack User Group
This fifth edition of the OpenStack CH User Group has been dedicated to the networking aspects of OpenStack and not only.
More then 40 people attended the meeting on 24-Oct. from 18.00 to 21.00 at the University of Zurich, Irchel campus