Virtualization Ecosystems – Supporting Increasingly
Complex Scientific Applications
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Event Type
Panel
Applications
Parallel Application Frameworks
Programming Systems
TimeThursday, November 16th1:30pm -
3pm
Location201-203
DescriptionComputational Science has rapidly grown over the past
decades due to adoption of “commodity” technologies
starting with Beowulf clusters of the 90’s, through
building large computational resources based on
commercially available servers. This trend led the
scientific community to adopt commercial software
practices such as virtualization and provisioning
systems. As a result scientific applications are
becoming increasingly less tied to specific hardware,
increasingly diverse, and increasingly complex with many
interconnected components and dependencies. Addressing
problems requiring data/model synthesis or data sharing
and analysis as services, considerations in this space
typically take the form of managing heterogeneous
sub-components, differing and at times conflicting
dependencies, as well as diverse and changing deployment
considerations. In this panel we will discuss the
growing movement to address these challenges: changes in
the type of support provided, conventions that would
facilitate such activities, and tools that can be
leveraged to simplify these types of applications.
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