A Blog of the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
With the advent of large scale architectures came a need to improve the distribution of requests to optimize the throughput of the system while keeping a minimum response time. This is especially true for large web services. Load balancing is the ability to make many servers participate in the same service and do the same […]
ZHAW ICCLab, as president of the Swiss Informatics Society (SI) Cloud Computing Fachgruppe, is setting up this Special Interest Group (SIG) in Switzerland (SI-SIG-CC). The Special Interest Group on Cloud Computing Kick Off meeting will be held on: 21-May-2014 from 9:30 to 14:30 at Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) Address: Technikumstrasse 9, 8400 Winterthur […]
ZHAW Service Engineering ICCLab sporadically sends Newsletters with short information about latest activities of the lab and relevant events. In this issue Welcome message FI-PPP at FIA 2014 in Athens ICClab node on XiPi portal of Future Internet infrastructures Major event: 1st European Conference on the Future Internet in Bruxelles Next events: Open Cloud Day […]
Ceph is one of the most interesting distributed storage systems available, with a very active development and a complete set of features that make it a valuable candidate for cloud storage services. This tutorial goes through the required steps (and some related troubleshooting), required to setup a Ceph cluster and access it with a simple client […]
How does one remove a faulty/un/re-provisioned physical machine from the list of managed physical nodes in OpenStack nova? Recently we had to remove a compute node in our cluster for management reasons (read, it went dead on us). But nova perpetually maintains the host entry hoping at some point in time, it will come back […]
The famous Nagios open source monitoring system has become a de facto standard in recent years. Unlike commercial monitoring solutions Nagios does not come as a one-size-fits-all monitoring system with thousands of monitoring agents and monitoring functions. Nagios is rather a small, lightweight monitoring system reduced to the bare essential of monitoring: an event management […]
Workshop Motivation and Background This workshop addresses the three main topics that are significant for the realization of the Future Internet Architecture, which are the Mobile Networking, Network Function Virtualization and Service Virtualization. While mobile communication networks have been established decades ago and are still continuously evolving, cloud computing and cloud services became a hot […]
In Mobile Cloud Networking (MCN) we rely heavily on OpenStack, OpenShift and of course Automation. So that developers can get working fast with their own local infrastructure, we’ve spent time setting up an automated workflow, using Vagrant and puppet to setup both OpenStack and OpenShift. If you want to experiment with both OpenStack and OpenShift locally, simply clone this project…
Workshop Date: Wednesday May 14th from 10:00 to 14:00, room ‘TV 401’ The ICCLab is pleased to invite you to the upcoming Workshop on Scientific Computing in the ICCLab Cloud. This workshop will focus on how to leverage the ICCLab Cloud infrastructures for executing scientific applications in a distributed, high performance environment. The workshop’s agenda […]
This blog post gives an overview of the InfiniBand functionality that is offered by the transport stack of KIARA. KIARA is a new and advanced middleware and a part of the FI-WARE project which is in turn part of the very large European FI-PPP programme. Several team members of the ICCLab are currently working on […]