[Haizea] Haizea and Nimbus

[Borja Sotomayor]

Hi,

> By saying "client", I mean haizea being able to use Nimbus cloud as an 
> additional resource or effectively, haizea being able to adopt the role of 
> a traditional broker when dealing with multiple clouds.
> 
> How does this sound to you...:-)

For now, I'm focusing Haizea on managing local resources. I think using 
Haizea as a full-blown "cloud broker" is beyond the project's current 
scope. This is not to say that it's not an interesting idea and, in 
fact, it's one of the problems being addressed by the EU RESERVOIR project:

	http://www.reservoir-fp7.eu/

In some discussions with the OpenNebula folks (OpenNebula is funded by 
RESERVOIR) we think it might be interesting to eventually extend Haizea 
so that it's aware of external clouds, but more in the sense of "if I 
can't deal with this lease request at this site, I'll instruct 
OpenNebula to outsource it to an external cloud it can interface with" 
than in the sense of a metascheduler (coordinating multiple sites). 
Since OpenNebula already supports interfacing with EC2, it would be a 
natural next step (but one for which we have no immediate plans)

If you are interested in the notion of a cloud broker, you may want to 
raise this issue in the OpenNebula mailing list, since more people will 
be able to pitch in on this subject there.

Cheers!
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Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago
  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Computer Science
  Ryerson 257-C, 1100 East 58th Street, Chicago, IL
  http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~borja/
Haizea: http://haizea.cs.uchicago.edu/
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