A Blog of the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Operating system process management has traditionally been an activity at the system level. An init system starts processes at boot time, at random events, and at the user’s (well, root’s) request. Well-known init systems are systemd, openrc and the venerable sysvinit. Without the boot-time component, supervisor processes such as supervisord, runit, daemontools or r6 form […]
In one of our projects, we needed to test some mongo based backend functionality: we wrote a small application which comprised of a mongo backend and a python app which communicated with the backend via pymongo. We like the flexibility of mongo in a rapid prototyping context and did not want to go with a […]
In the Service Engineering research area, we aim at producing high-quality output in terms of software, publications, lecture materials and other results. From time to time, this implies departing from old habits and taking a bit of extra effort to reach new quality levels. For publications, there are excellent tools like LaTeX to achieve a […]
The Service Engineering group just finished the Cloud Computing Summer School 2016 last Friday. Summer School is a yearly activity at ZHAW, organised in the first 2 weeks of July, in collaboration with the Grand Valley State University (GVSU), USA. Students of both universities attend the lectures in Winterthur. Swiss students are given the option to […]
As announced in our last blogpost about the official release of Cyclops 2.0, which is finally out and is adding new features. The collector that is being released today is the Ceilometer Usage Collector. This collector enables Cyclops 2.0 to provide full rating, charging and billing support to an OpenStack deployment using the data provided by Ceilometer. In addition […]
Last evening we organised the 13th OpenStack user group meetup at ZHAW premises in Winterthur. The meetup was also a celebratory event to mark the 6th b’day of OpenStack and the OpenStack foundation supported the event by sponsoring it. I thank the OpenStack foundation on behalf of the Swiss OpenStack community. Schlagwörter: events, meetup, openstack, […]
Our flagship open-source framework for cloud billing – Cyclops has matured to version 2.0 today. Over the past several months, Cyclops team at ICCLab have gathered community feedbacks, worked systematically updating and re-updating the framework core architecture to make the whole work-flow of billing of cloud services clean and seamless. The core components in principle […]
We all know this tedious situation: Plenty of mobile robots around us, and we’d just like to use one of them for a specific task, but we don’t know which one we should take, as they’re all regularly busy on their own. Perhaps this is not a likely scenario right now, but it will be […]
Last week on 16th June, we held our 5th Open Cloud Day. It took place this year at our campus (ZHAW Winterthur). We co-located another event of ours with the Open Cloud Day, the SDN Workshop. Open Cloud Day is a joint activity, organised annually by ch/open/ and our research group, Service Engineering. The SDN […]
What does half a spare day lead to with an ICCLab researcher? Something fun and interesting one would hope! Schlagwörter: Cyclops, IoT, simulation