Barcelona, Spain
October 25-28, 2016

Event Details

Please note: All times listed below are in Central Time Zone


Scaling Science Clouds in Europe with TOSCA and Heat Translator

Last summit we introduced the work being done by the Indigo DataCloud project, whose members include CERN, UPV and many other institutions in Europe. The goal is to build a sustainable infrastructure for science, spanning multiple computer centers and existing public clouds.

We rely on TOSCA as the standard to model the full stack, and have now expanded the infrastructure to include multiple OpenStack and OpenNebula sites and public clouds running proprietary software. As the infrastructure grows and extends to include more countries, so do the use cases both in number and complexity.

In this presentation we will summarize the work being done both in the Heat Translator and the TOSCA parser, and how we build on them to model and deploy our infrastructure. We will demo a complex application defined using TOSCA and deployed in multiple heterogeneous sites, along with some of the workflows we apply to running applications.


What can I expect to learn?

Attendees will learn what TOSCA is and how they can benefit from it to model their own applications. Some basic and more advanced examples will be introduced, along with experiences and feedback of deploying a large infrastructure using the TOSCA standard.

Thursday, October 27, 9:50am-10:30am (7:50am - 8:30am UTC)
Difficulty Level: Intermediate
CERN
Mathieu Velten is a software engineer at CERN. He's currently a member of the CERN OpenStack team, focusing on service and application orchestration and container deployments, and working on the Heat translator for the INDIGO DataCloud eurropean project. Previous work included Technological Research at Atos Toulouse mainly for the French spatial agency regarding container and new Big... FULL PROFILE
IBM Software Engineer
Sahdev Zala is an IBM Advisory Software Engineer in the IBM Cloud Architecture and Technology organization. In his current role, Sahdev is Project Technical Lead (PTL) of OpenStack TOSCA-Parser and Heat-Translator projects. Both the projects are part of OpenStack Heat main program. He is a TOSCA Technical Committee member. He has also contributed towards LDAP enhancements in the OpenStack... FULL PROFILE
Spanish National Research Council
Dr. Alvaro Lopez Garcia is a research associate at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). He holds a PhD in Science, Technology and Computing from the University of Cantabria (UC). He was a visiting researcher at the IN2P3/CNRS Computing Center in Lyon, France and a research associate at the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN). He is also an assitant  professor at... FULL PROFILE