[Colloquium] Seminar Announcement: Toward Co-operative Economic Meta-Scheduling in Grid and Cloud Systems - TODAY!

[Ninfa Mayorga]

Computation Institute- Data Lunch Seminar (DLS)

Speaker: Kyle Chard, Senior Research Project Professional, Computation  
Institute, The University of Chicago
Date: June 17, 2011
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: University of Chicago, Searle 240A, 5735 S. Ellis Avenue

Toward Co-operative Economic Meta-Scheduling in Grid and Cloud Systems

Abstract: The computational landscape is littered with 'islands' of  
disjoint resource providers that lack communication and coordination  
between one another. As a first step towards a global computing  
infrastructure we propose using a generic economic meta-scheduling  
architecture to facilitate federated resource allocation and therefore  
allow users to provision resources from a wide range of heterogeneous  
service providers. The use of economic resource allocation in  
distributed systems has long been proposed as an efficient means of  
resource allocation. However, until recently adoption has been slow  
due to, amongst other things, high overhead and poor performance. In  
this talk we extend upon the economic models currently used in Cloud  
computing, specifically focusing on secure privacy preserving auctions  
that facilitate the use of a 'co-op' meta-scheduling architecture. In  
addition, we present a unique case study showing the use of this meta- 
scheduling architecture in creatin g a 'Social Cloud' - a dynamic  
Cloud computing infrastructure composed of virtualized resources  
contributed by members of a social network.

Bio:
Kyle Chard is a Senior Research Project Professional at the  
Computation Institute. He received his PhD in Computer Science from  
Victoria University of Wellington in 2011, having previously received  
his BSc (Hons) in Computer Science and BSc in Mathematics and  
Electronics.


Information: Lunch will be provided