A Blog of the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
This blog post details my project work carried out at the SPLab as an IMS intern. The IMS (Informatikmittelschule) is a type of school for young students (16-20 years old) who aspire to become developers with a business focus. Every IMS student in Switzerland has to participate in an internship in their last year of […]
The Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) offered by AWS as public commercial service has been one of the first and probably the seminal service for the research on cloud applications and infrastructure. From an application perspective, hosting in EC2 means wrapping the application into one of the provided virtual machine (VM) images and instantiating it in […]
In the past year i was working on a graphical interface for Netfloc – the SDK for SDN developed in the SDN initiative. Just to remind you, the aim of Netflogi is to: (1) make the SDK itself easy to use and (2) expose the Netfloc APIs and functional features to the network application developers and datacenter service providers. […]
[This post was originally published on the GEYSER blog by our own Seàn Murphy. ICCLab is a partner in GEYSER and is responsible for developing workload migration mechanisms and other activities.] GEYSER focuses on making Data Centres more energy efficient in the context of varying availability of energy. One of the tools used in this […]
What does half a spare day lead to with an ICCLab researcher? Something fun and interesting one would hope! Schlagwörter: Cyclops, IoT, simulation
Cloud Platforms allow development teams to bring application to production very fast. In Cloud Foundry a simple ‘cf push’ can be used to deploy your application and bind it to the required services. This works incredibly well for small applications. But as the trend in Cloud Native Applications is going towards microservice architectures, which easily […]
The 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2016) is going to run from December 6 to 9 in Shanghai. A number of calls are open to attract submissions of academic papers, hands-on demonstrations, project workshops and doctoral research plans. This brief blog post gives a convenient summary of the calls. Schlagwörter: […]
After several months of development, last week was finally the first beta release of the distributed computing orchestration framework DISCO. What is DISCO anyway? Have you ever needed a computing cluster for Big Data to be ready in a matter of seconds, with a huge amount of computers at its disposal? If so, then DISCO is for […]
In FIWARELab, we recently upgraded from Openstack Icehouse to a Kilo High Availability (HA) deployment. Our approach involved having two simultaneous active Openstack deployments so VMs and volumes could be migrated from one deployment to another with a minimal downtime. More specifically, VMs and volumes were snapshotted and transferred to the Kilo deployment as images […]
Cloud services are meant to be elastically scalable and robust against all kinds of failures. The core services are very mature nowadays, but the tools which glue them together are often in need of quality improvements. Two common risks in networked environments are (1) unavailability and (2) slowness of services. The first risk is easier […]