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VCLVirtual Computing Laboratory
An Opportunity to Lead
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Avoiding Crisis-Creating Success
• Silo’ed Investments• Complexity• Access
• SaaS• Borg “like”
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IT Timeline
1960
1980 201020001990
Communications Information Manipulation
Network Web Cloud Computing
Three Foundational IT Elements
Evolution of User Capability [Abstraction Layer]
Information Age Timeline
Tipping Point
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Economic Climate
The Worst of Times
The Best of Times
Enrollment
Expectations
Funding
Risk
Opportunity
Crisis
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What is VCL?
VCL • Is a management, hardware and software system that provides
for automated re-configuration, reuse, multiuse and leveraging of IT resources for flexible, on-demand access.
• Is a software as a service model (SaaS) of cloud computing, where computing performed elsewhere delivers a “cloud” of services to your device.
• Is a development initiative undertaken to avert crisis; i.e., to resolve technical, economic and pedagogical barriers to effective access and use of computing technology in learning and research
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Business Case
Technical
Pedagogical
Viability open source
market growth
service provider
support
Apache.Org
MCNC
products
development
Infrastructure
xxxxx
IBM
VCL
analytics
people
green
scalable
agile
C/U_Service
usability
customization
systems
attribution
provisioning
licensing
Economics
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Service Paradigm
Services Technology Consumer Technology
Network
VCL
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Service Environment
Consumer/Personal Computing
SuperComputing
Categories of Delivered Services
Grand challenge class problems often require true supercomputing
Complementary Services
Commodity
Professional
Business
Research
VCL
Scale of Use
Complexity and Unit Cost
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Underlying Architecture
Service Broker 1
Service Broker 3
Service Broker 2
Physical/VirtualProvisioning Engine
Nothing New—Everything Different
VCEVirtual computingEnvironment (VCE)
VCE
UserExperience User
Experience
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Why VCL Works as a Solution
VCL is Counterintuitive• VCL delivers the economic benefits of infrastructure
consolidation while enabling an unprecedented level of user control and service diversity.
• VCL advances aspirational goals while leveling the playing field across services ranging from theoretical research and innovation, to basic commodity tools.
• VCL delivers service specific solutions from a single shared, leveraged architectural framework that dynamically adapts to user demand.
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1. Mainstreams special, hard to support capabilities — allows CS students to modify, even crash, “servers” with impunity. Intelligent Pipelining, DR and BC.
2. Broadens access to complex and costly apps — HPC, SAS w/ArcGIS….a threshold investment anywhere lowers the barrier to entry everywhere.
3. Provides hassle-free repeatability — faculty have switched from traditional solutions to VCL to bypass local support challenges.
4. Leverages underutilized capacity across disparate uses — shifting resources between student computing and HPC. Also virtualization.
5. Maximizes student investment, promotes safety, accommodates lifestyle, is green — time, place, platform independence.
6. Empowers innovation, experimentation — allows custom software builds, custom configurations, and runtime control (virtual ownership) .
7. Facilitates analytics-based resource management — you can’t manage what you can’t measure. Think software, power, capacity, etc.
VCL in Action