tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78882432573684920462024-03-05T14:45:25.453-05:00FutureGrid Testbed... exploring innovative approaches to parallel, grid, and cloud computing.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888243257368492046.post-15148771291009683062014-09-30T17:33:00.000-04:002014-09-30T17:33:01.002-04:00FutureGrid Transition Plans for Hotel and Alamo Users<br />
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With the FutureGrid project ending, here is an outline of the transition to the Hotel and Alamo resources operated under the new Chameleon project. </div>
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First, the FutureGrid management has graciously consented to operate their portal until the end of this week. This means that until the end of this week you will be able to manage your FutureGrid account. If you need to change the password or perform any other management actions, please do so at this time.</div>
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Alamo will become unavailable on October 1st as we take it down to reconfigure it for the new project. During this time, Hotel will be operating "as is" in order to provide some resources for existing users. You will be able to access Hotel with your existing FutureGrid account -- however beginning this Monday (October 6th) your account will be "frozen", i.e., you will no longer be able to manage your FutureGrid account, so please make sure that all is in order by then. During this time, we will also be able to provide only a limited amount of support as we develop the Chameleon portal. </div>
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We are planning to make the Chameleon portal available around the end of October. It will include tools facilitating porting your FutureGrid account to the Chameleon account. Alamo will become available around the same time via the new project. Once Alamo becomes available, we will take down Hotel for reconfiguration. We plan to complete the transition in November. </div>
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To keep in touch, please visit our website, <a href="http://www.chameleoncloud.org/">www.chameleoncloud.org</a>. We will also post regular updates there as the project gets underway.</div>
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Mathematics and CS Division, Argonne National Laboratory Computation Institute, University of Chicago</div>
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Pierre Riteauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01735713224451704424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888243257368492046.post-15382019398856020612014-09-12T13:51:00.001-04:002014-09-12T13:51:09.915-04:00Shutdown of Nimbus Hotel clouds<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Dear Hotel users, </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Early this year, we announced <a href="http://futuregridtestbed.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/changes-in-nimbus-cloud-allocations-in.html" target="_blank">a move towards shutting down the Nimbus-Xen cloud on Hotel</a> and the creation of Nimbus-KVM in addition to the OpenStack-KVM cloud already operated on this resource. However, since most of our users chose to move to the OpenStack-KVM cloud as a result of this change, we decided to operate the Nimbus clouds for a longer time allowing the community to fully transition to OpenStack.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">As most of the active Nimbus users have now moved to the OpenStack, we therefore plan to shut down the Nimbus clouds on Hotel (both Xen and KVM versions) by Friday, September 19, 2014 to facilitate the reconfiguration of the physical infrastructure to support OpenStack. These resources will continue to be operated as an OpenStack cloud <a href="https://portal.futuregrid.org/news/futuregrid-nsfcloud" target="_blank">under the new Chameleon project</a>. Please contact us if this action will create any issue with your current or planned use of Nimbus Hotel.</span></span>Pierre Riteauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01735713224451704424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888243257368492046.post-43047659601349600962014-08-21T14:32:00.000-04:002014-08-21T14:32:03.634-04:00From FutureGrid to NSFCloud<br />Yesterday, the National Science Foundation announced <a href="http://nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=132377&org=NSF&from=news" target="_blank">the NSFCloud awards</a>. FutureGrid partners, University of Chicago and TACC won one of them to build an experimental testbed called <a href="http://www.chameleoncloud.org/" target="_blank">Chameleon</a>. We are excited to be able to continue serving the FutureGrid community through this new project!<br /><br />The FutureGrid resources at University of Chicago and TACC, Hotel and Alamo, will continue to be operated during the first year of the Chameleon project. We will provide documentation and tools as necessary to streamline user transition from FutureGrid to Chameleon so that FutureGrid users can keep their data and access these resources easily. We will also make every effort to ensure that the resource availability under the new project overlaps with FutureGrid.<br /><br />Initially the resources will be operated in roughly the same way as they are now operated in FutureGrid with the exception that the "HPC partitions" will not be supported. We will continue the process of transitioning users to the OpenStack clouds. In Spring of 2015, we expect to introduce additional capabilities allowing users to work with bare metal reconfiguration while continuing to operate OpenStack clouds for research and educational projects as before. In the Fall of 2015, the existing Hotel and Alamo resources will be supplanted by new hardware consisting of over 650 multi-core nodes equipped with OpenFlow switches and a total of 5 PB of storage. The operational model of the resources will remain the same in the essentials but will be progressively refined to support increasingly more experiments.<br /><br />To find out more, please visit our website, <a href="http://www.chameleoncloud.org/">www.chameleoncloud.org</a><span id="goog_2046281805"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a><span id="goog_2046281806"></span>. We will also post regular updates as the project gets underway.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17738559249207406684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888243257368492046.post-22924970006067941992014-08-11T17:07:00.001-04:002014-08-11T17:07:10.320-04:00Important Changes!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: monospace, fixed; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">After almost five years of operation, the FutureGrid </span><span style="font-family: monospace, fixed; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">project will come to an end on September 30th. There will be several </span><span style="font-family: monospace, fixed; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">options for current users who wish to continue their work after that date.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: monospace, fixed; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">The Indiana University machines Xray, India, Bravo, Delta, Echo will </span><span style="font-family: monospace, fixed; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">continue running roughly as is for both education and research (with </span><span style="font-family: monospace, fixed; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">greater use of Cloudmesh tool and a different access portal), and </span><span style="font-family: monospace, fixed; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">additional possibilities via other projects will be described in a detailed announcement in the next few weeks. In particular, we expect that testbeds </span><span style="font-family: monospace, fixed; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">funded by the NSFCloud solicitation (</span><a class="fixed" href="https://webmail.iu.edu/horde/services/go.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nsf.gov%2Fpubs%2F2013%2Fnsf13602%2Fnsf13602.htm" style="color: #990000; font-family: monospace, fixed; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13602/nsf13602.htm</a><span style="font-family: monospace, fixed; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">) will be available to </span><span style="font-family: monospace, fixed; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">welcome FutureGrid users as FutureGrid is ending. These testbeds will focus </span><span style="font-family: monospace, fixed; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">on supporting research and development in cloud computing. Further High </span><span style="font-family: monospace, fixed; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">performance computing and data intensive computing users can request time </span><span style="font-family: monospace, fixed; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">on other XSEDE resources.</span></div>
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See <a class="fixed" href="https://webmail.iu.edu/horde/services/go.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.xsede.org%2Fresources%2Foverview" style="color: #990000; font-family: monospace, fixed; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://www.xsede.org/resources/overview</a><span style="font-family: monospace, fixed; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;"> for </span><span style="font-family: monospace, fixed; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">a description of XSEDE resources and </span><a class="fixed" href="https://webmail.iu.edu/horde/services/go.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fportal.xsede.org%2Fallocations-overview" style="color: #990000; font-family: monospace, fixed; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://portal.xsede.org/allocations-overview</a><span style="font-family: monospace, fixed; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;"> for information on how to </span><span style="font-family: monospace, fixed; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">request access.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: monospace, fixed; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">Please submit a ticket or send email to </span><a class="fixed" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: #990000; font-family: monospace, fixed; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">help@futuregrid.org</a><span style="font-family: monospace, fixed; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;"> if you need </span><span style="font-family: monospace, fixed; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">help before details on future options are available.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: monospace, fixed; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">Thank you, Geoffrey</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888243257368492046.post-38626896858955080902014-07-15T11:19:00.000-04:002014-07-15T11:19:02.812-04:00New Phantomize feature: automatic installation of tcollector sensor agent<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">We are happy to announce "phantomize", a Phantom feature that will automatically install and run the tcollector sensor agent on the first boot of your virtual machines thereby automatically instrumenting your VMs to provide sensor measurements.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Phantom offers autoscaling based on sensor measurements from a variety of sources, including user's virtual machines. To collect these measurements, Phantom relies on the tcollector sensor agent being running on each of those virtual machines. Until now, users had to manually install tcollector in their virtual machines or use an image provided by us with tcollector already installed. The former requires extra effort and the latter restricts the user to the types of images provided by us. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">The phantomize feature addresses this problem. To use it, all the user needs to do is pick the "phantomize" contextualization type in their launch configuration settings. The only requirement is that the user's virtual machine image is capable of downloading and executing the user-data script on boot.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Phantomize has been tested successfully with Debian, Fedora, and Ubuntu virtual machines on FutureGrid clouds running Nimbus and OpenStack.</span>Pierre Riteauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01735713224451704424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888243257368492046.post-57164147803551521922014-06-06T10:47:00.001-04:002014-06-06T10:47:48.776-04:00OpenStack Hotel now supports the native OpenStack APIsWe have changed the configuration of the OpenStack Hotel cloud so that users can now access the native OpenStack APIs over secure HTTP connections.<br />
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You can download your OpenStack credentials file from the web interface via the "Access & Security" link in the left of any page and then click on the "API Access" link on the top.<br />
<br />Pierre Riteauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01735713224451704424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888243257368492046.post-45051091102347168212014-06-04T12:17:00.002-04:002014-06-04T12:17:50.546-04:00FutureGrid multi-cloud VM image generator now availableWe are happy to announce the alpha release of our newest tool for FutureGrid users: a multi-cloud VM image generator.<br />
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FutureGrid offers access to multiple clouds based on several different technologies (Nimbus, OpenStack, and Eucalyptus) using different hypervisors (Xen or KVM). Users can also supplement the use of FutureGrid resources by bursting out to commercial clouds such as Amazon EC2. While this allows users to use multiple clouds, such access is often hard to leverage as VM images are generally not portable across different formats and cloud providers.<br />
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This presents users with a few problems. First, moving from one cloud to another means creating a new image; this is time-consuming and error-prone. Second, users typically want the VM images to represent a consistent environment independently of what type of cloud the image is deployed on; this is hard to achieve using a manual configuration process as even small differences in configuration can have significant consequences. Third, even if the user does produce a set of images that are initially consistent, as images subsequently evolve it is hard to keep track of which changes were applied to which image. In short, the problem is the lack of traceability and repeatability of VM image customizations.<br />
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Our image generator aims to solve these problems by providing an interface to specify a customization script that can be used to generate consistent images for many clouds. The service starts out with a set of consistent images uploaded to several clouds, applies them to those images, and creates a new VM image on each cloud.<br />
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<br />Pierre Riteauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01735713224451704424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888243257368492046.post-82279191467694965462014-03-06T13:03:00.002-05:002014-03-06T13:03:36.534-05:00Nimbus users on Hotel and Sierra should now start migrating to KVMIf you are currently using Nimbus on Sierra or Hotel, or if your work relies on an existing virtual machine image hosted on those clouds, then <b>you need to take action.</b><br />
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In a few days, the Nimbus cloud on Sierra will become unavailable. As a result, following the recent announcement of <a href="http://futuregridtestbed.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/changes-in-nimbus-cloud-allocations-in.html" target="_blank">changes in Nimbus cloud allocations on FutureGrid</a>, the Hotel cloud will be gradually converted from Xen to KVM virtualization. In addition to being compatible with the Alamo Nimbus cloud, this allows us to support recent Linux distributions and brings better compatibility with virtual machine images built using other virtualization platforms (VirtualBox for example).<br />
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We have now made available a Nimbus cloud on Hotel using KVM virtualization. The existing Xen cloud on Hotel will remain available until the end of March to allow users to migrate their environments. To start using the Nimbus Hotel KVM cloud, <a href="http://manual.futuregrid.org/nimbus.html#obtain-your-nimbus-credentials-and-configuration-files" target="_blank">extract a fresh copy of your credentials</a> and use the hotel-kvm.conf configuration file.<br />
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<b>As soon as possible</b>, you should migrate your Xen images from Sierra and Hotel to a KVM cloud: either to Alamo or to the new Hotel KVM cloud.<br />
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If your virtual machine image only contains small modifications from the base environment, we advise to create a new one using the base images on those clouds.<br />
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If your virtual machine image contains heavy modifications, you can follow <a href="http://manual.futuregrid.org/nimbus.html#converting-a-xen-image-to-kvm" target="_blank">our instructions to convert your Xen image to KVM</a>.<br />
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If you need any assistance for this process, please contact us through the <a href="https://portal.futuregrid.org/help" target="_blank">FutureGrid help system</a>.Pierre Riteauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01735713224451704424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888243257368492046.post-29037579989712336692014-02-18T13:28:00.001-05:002014-02-18T13:28:19.722-05:00Changes in Nimbus Cloud Allocations in FutureGrid<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Dear Nimbus Users,</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">FutureGrid has decided to decommission the Nimbus Cloud on Sierra at San Diego Supercomputing Center. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Over the last several years Sierra and Hotel have been the two most used FutureGrid clouds. Sierra has fulfilled an important role for many Nimbus-based projects as a complement to Hotel: both Sierra and Hotel are configured with the Xen hypervisor so it was easy for users to move their virtual machines between the clouds when one of them was down for maintenance or to configure distributed experiments. We will be sad to see Sierra go, but in the meantime we made plans to facilitate the transition for our users. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">In order to provide the same level of service, i.e., provide two closely integrated clouds such that users can move easily from one to the other, we will reconfigure Hotel such that the Nimbus Alamo cloud at TACC and the Nimbus Hotel cloud at University of Chicago support the same configuration. Since Alamo is configured with KVM, this will mean that the Hotel cloud will now also support KVM. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b>What this means to you:</b> If you are using Nimbus on Sierra or Hotel it means that you will need to convert your images from Xen to KVM. We will of course provide guides on how to make this conversion as well as base KVM images that can be configured with user software. To allow our users time to make the change we will also operate both the Nimbus-Xen and Nimbus-KVM clouds at University of Chicago side by side for a month. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b>Timetable:</b> The Hotel Nimbus-KVM cloud will become available on March 3rd and the Hotel Nimbus-Xen cloud will shut down on March 31st. The Sierra Nimbus-Xen cloud will become unavailable after March 3rd.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Both Alamo and Hotel also support OpenStack KVM-based clouds with complementary configurations used by an increasing number of projects. As you are migrating your work from the Hotel and Sierra Nimbus-Xen clouds, please consider using one of those clouds as well. The amount of physical resources allocated to Nimbus and OpenStack will be based on cloud utilization.</span>Pierre Riteauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01735713224451704424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888243257368492046.post-34209359441469750792014-01-16T15:28:00.000-05:002014-01-16T15:28:42.848-05:00OpenStack Havana is available on Hotel<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">We are happy to announce that our new OpenStack Havana cloud on Hotel is ready!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">We also provide an EC2-compatible API over HTTPS. Credentials for this API can be retrieved in the "Access & Security" section, under the "API Access" tab. Additionally, <a href="https://phantom.nimbusproject.org/" target="_blank">Nimbus Phantom</a> also supports deploying instances on this cloud (look at <a href="http://www.nimbusproject.org/doc/phantom/latest/" target="_blank">our documentation</a> to learn more about Phantom).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">We have configured this cloud to behave similarly to the existing Nimbus cloud on Hotel, in order to provide a better user experience. As such, OpenStack instances get public IP addresses by default. Additionally, instances hostnames are configured to match the DNS name associated with the public IP address. For example, an instance which is assigned a public IP address of 149.165.149.2 gets configured with an internal hostname of</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> vm-149-2.uc.futuregrid.org</span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">. Both can be used to connect to the instance via SSH from your workstation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Any question or bug report about the new OpenStack cloud on Hotel should be sent to the <a href="https://portal.futuregrid.org/help" target="_blank">FutureGrid help system</a>.</span>Pierre Riteauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01735713224451704424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888243257368492046.post-92100134500802263852013-12-04T11:24:00.001-05:002013-12-04T11:27:16.400-05:00OpenStack Havana is ready on IndiaWe are happy to announce that OpenStack's Havana version is ready on India.<br />
<br />
If you already have account on FutureGrid, you can use it with this steps.<br />
<pre style="-moz-border-radius: 5px; -webkit-border-radius: 5px; background: #f0f0f0; border-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid #CCCCCC; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: auto; line-height: 20px; overflow: auto; padding: 6px; text-align: left; width: 99%;"><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;">ssh <username>@india.futuregrid.org
module load novaclient
source ~/.futuregrid/openstack_havana/novarc
</code></pre>
<br />
If you belong to multiple projects, you can easily switch your tenant/project, with this.<br />
<pre style="-moz-border-radius: 5px; -webkit-border-radius: 5px; background: #f0f0f0; border-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid #CCCCCC; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: auto; line-height: 20px; overflow: auto; padding: 6px; text-align: left; width: 99%;"><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;"><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;">source ~/.futuregrid/openstack_havana/<project_id></code>
</code></pre>
<br />
Other than the initial setting, the rest of how-to is the same as our <a href="http://manual.futuregrid.org/openstackgrizzly.html" target="_blank">OpenStack Grizzly Manual</a>.<br />
<br />
If you find an issue, please submit a ticket.<br />
<a href="https://portal.futuregrid.org/help">https://portal.futuregrid.org/help</a><br />
<br />
And also, OpenStack Orchestration, called <a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Heat" target="_blank">Heat</a>, will be available soon.<br />
<br />
Thanks,Koji Tanakahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09622546766258134013noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888243257368492046.post-52779049264466128372013-11-05T11:32:00.000-05:002013-11-05T11:37:09.289-05:00New features in Phantom available on FutureGridWe recently released Summer Highlights for the Phantom project: many new exciting features got added, including support for multi-cloud appliances and contextualization. Head over to the Nimbus Project web site for a <a href="http://www.nimbusproject.org/news/#361" target="_blank">full description of the improvements</a>.<br />
<br />
Phantom allows the user to deploy a set of virtual machines over multiple private, community, and commercial clouds and then automatically grows or shrinks this set based on policies defined by the user. This elastic set of virtual machines can then be used to implement scalable and highly available services.<br />
<br />
Phantom has been introduced to the FutureGrid community at the XSEDE 2012 conference with examples from early Phantom users. A generally available Phantom FutureGrid service (alpha) was announced <a href="http://futuregridtestbed.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/announcing-nimbus-phantom-alpha-on.html" target="_blank">earlier this year</a>.<br />
<br />
<span id="docs-internal-guid-51c43108-2862-cf6a-97f6-f9b003b23168"><img height="397px;" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/3uR_1QzjCtiql5hLEpNhw6Di5fondBlHBSzA5OdqDSB8roAWp7PLElMtyeUAMywyxYpwzc6tYTS-XQ-sMpROMm4l-Rx27a79j3whD8vXAMX8wW9Slvgan19pzg" width="624px;" /></span><br />
<br />
Since then the FutureGrid Phantom service has deployed over 14,000 virtual machines on behalf of 26 users using it as a portal to multiple FutureGrid clouds, to cloud burst from FutureGrid to Amazon EC2, or to leverage its monitoring, scalability and high availability features. If you want to try Phantom too, follow our <a href="http://www.nimbusproject.org/doc/phantom/latest/" target="_blank">documentation page</a> that will get you started very quickly.<br />
<br />
We are continuously working hard to make Phantom a more powerful platform for FutureGrid. We are planning exciting new features in the fall!Pierre Riteauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01735713224451704424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888243257368492046.post-17815147713791973822013-10-22T15:46:00.002-04:002013-10-22T15:47:38.221-04:00Video: Using OpenStack command line tools<br />
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/xRVJfOaR23w" width="853"></iframe>
<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">This lesson, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRVJfOaR23w">Using OpenStack command line tools</a>, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">explains how to use the OpenStack Commandline tools on the <a href="https://portal.futuregrid.org/">FutureGrid</a> cluster called sierra.futuregrid.org. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">For written material, see section </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><a class="reference internal" href="http://manual.futuregrid.org/openstackgrizzly.html#s-openstack-grizzly" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #428bca; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none;">OpenStack Grizzly</a><span style="color: #333333;"><i> </i>in the <a href="http://manual.futuregrid.org/">FutureGrid manual</a>.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Visit FutureGrid's <a href="https://fgmoocs.appspot.com/">Massive Open Online Course (MOOCs) site </a>for more video based learning opportunities.</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888243257368492046.post-53939148069879333852013-10-17T18:43:00.001-04:002013-10-17T18:49:13.502-04:00Newly Released OpenStack Havana on FutureGrid<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">OpenStack Havana was released today. FutureGrid is happy to announce that undergraduates </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">enrolled in a course for young computer scientists working in the field of software and </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">system will be among the first to gain hands-on experience with FutureGrid's </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">implementation of the new version of OpenStack on India. For more about this course, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">please visit the FG-368 project page: </span><a href="https://portal.futuregrid.org/projects/368">https://portal.futuregrid.org/projects/368</a><br />
<br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Work is underway to make OpenStack Havana available to other FutureGrid users as soon as </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">possible. Queries about FutureGrid's OpenStack Havana implementation should be sent to </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">FutureGrid using the ticketing system: </span><a href="https://portal.futuregrid.org/help">https://portal.futuregrid.org/help</a><br />
<br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">FutureGrid will continue to make OpenStack Grizzly available on Sierra.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">For an overview of key features made available by the new OpenStack Havana release, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">please visit ZDNet's article, OpenStack Havana: Open-source cloud for the enterprise:</span><br />
<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/openstack-havana-open-source-cloud-for-the-enterprise-7000022086/">http://www.zdnet.com/openstack-havana-open-source-cloud-for-the-enterprise-7000022086/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888243257368492046.post-35495050827020392262013-10-08T17:51:00.002-04:002013-12-04T11:08:03.909-05:00Supernova instead of Nova?We installed <a href="https://github.com/major/supernova" target="_blank">Supernova</a> on Sierra, which is a very useful tool for OpenStack. If you say yes to any of the following questions, you should try <a href="https://github.com/major/supernova" target="_blank">Supernova</a>.<br />
<ul>
<li>Do you have multiple projects(tenants)?</li>
<li>Do you have another OpenStack to run your instances?</li>
</ul>
So here's how to use Supernova on Sierra.<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Before you try Supernova on FutureGird, you have to have your FutureGrid account and should know how to use OpenStack. Here's the link of our OpenStack Tutorial -> <a href="http://manual.futuregrid.org/openstackgrizzly.html">http://manual.futuregrid.org/openstackgrizzly.html</a></span></span></blockquote>
Login to Sierra and load Supernova.<br />
<pre style="-moz-border-radius: 5px; -webkit-border-radius: 5px; background: #f0f0f0; border-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid #CCCCCC; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: auto; line-height: 20px; overflow: auto; padding: 6px; text-align: left; width: 99%;"><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;">ssh username@sierra.futuregrid.org
module load supernova
</code></pre>
<br />
Check your novarc file and create your ~/.supernova file like below. In this example, my account(user1) is a member of fg123 and fg456.<br />
<pre style="-moz-border-radius: 5px; -webkit-border-radius: 5px; background: #f0f0f0; border-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid #CCCCCC; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: auto; line-height: 20px; overflow: auto; padding: 6px; text-align: left; width: 99%;"><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;">[fg123]
OS_AUTH_URL=https://s77r.idp.sdsc.futuregrid.org:5000/v2.0
OS_CACERT=/etc/futuregrid/openstack/sierra/cacert.pem
OS_PASSWORD=***************
OS_TENANT_NAME=fg123
OS_USERNAME=user1
</code><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;">
[fg456]
OS_AUTH_URL=https://s77r.idp.sdsc.futuregrid.org:5000/v2.0
OS_CACERT=/etc/futuregrid/openstack/sierra/cacert.pem
OS_PASSWORD=***************
OS_TENANT_NAME=fg456
OS_USERNAME=user1</code></pre>
<br />
Don't forget to change the permission to make it unreadable to anyone else.<br />
<pre style="-moz-border-radius: 5px; -webkit-border-radius: 5px; background: #f0f0f0; border-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid #CCCCCC; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: auto; line-height: 20px; overflow: auto; padding: 6px; text-align: left; width: 99%;"><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;">chmod 600 ~/.supernova
</code></pre>
<br />
Now, you should be able to check your tenant list.<br />
<pre style="-moz-border-radius: 5px; -webkit-border-radius: 5px; background: #f0f0f0; border-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid #CCCCCC; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: auto; line-height: 20px; overflow: auto; padding: 6px; text-align: left; width: 99%;"><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;">supernova --list
</code></pre>
<pre style="-moz-border-radius: 5px; -webkit-border-radius: 5px; background: #f0f0f0; border-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid #CCCCCC; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: auto; line-height: 20px; overflow: auto; padding: 6px; text-align: left; width: 99%;"><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;">-- fg123 --------------------------------------------------------------------
OS_AUTH_URL : https://s77r.idp.sdsc.futuregrid.org:5000/v2.0
OS_CACERT : /etc/futuregrid/openstack/sierra/cacert.pem
OS_PASSWORD : </code><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;"><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;">***************</code>
OS_TENANT_NAME : fg123
OS_USERNAME : user1</code><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;"><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;">
-- fg456 --------------------------------------------------------------------
OS_AUTH_URL : https://s77r.idp.sdsc.futuregrid.org:5000/v2.0
OS_CACERT : /etc/futuregrid/openstack/sierra/cacert.pem
OS_PASSWORD : </code><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;"><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;">***************</code>
OS_TENANT_NAME : fg456
OS_USERNAME : user1</code>
</code></pre>
<br />
The usage is the same as Nova Client. You just need to replace "<code>nova</code>" to "<code>supernova <tenantname></code>". Here's how to boot an instance on each tenant. <br />
<pre style="-moz-border-radius: 5px; -webkit-border-radius: 5px; background: #f0f0f0; border-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid #CCCCCC; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: auto; line-height: 20px; overflow: auto; padding: 6px; text-align: left; width: 99%;"><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;">supernova fg123 boot --image futuregrid/ubuntu-12.04 --flavor m1.small --key-name mykey fg123vm001
</code><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;"><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;">supernova fg456 boot --image futuregrid/ubuntu-12.04 --flavor m1.small --key-name mykey fg456vm002</code>
supernova fg123 list
supernova fg456 list
</code></pre>
<br />
Very easy and very useful, isn't it? <br />
<br />
In my work, I have multiple tenants and multiple OpenStack sets to work with, so Supernova is very very very helpful. I hope it makes your work easier, too!<br />
<br />
<br />
Thanks,Koji Tanakahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09622546766258134013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888243257368492046.post-23133578651312428172013-10-03T14:30:00.000-04:002013-10-03T15:39:23.386-04:00Nimbus/Alamo Updates<h2>
qcow2 images on Nimbus/Alamo </h2>
Support for the qcow2 virtual machine image format has been added to Nimbus on Alamo. One feature of qcow2 is that the size of an image on disk grows only as data is added to it. This is in contrast to a raw image file that is of a fixed size (the size of the virtual disk) which we typically gzip to reduce storage space.<br />
<br />
One of the benefits of using qcow2 images is that Nimbus does not have to perform a gzip or gunzip step when running and saving virtual machines. This reduces the time to start and save virtual machines significantly. We will be adding qcow2 images for Linux distributions over time. If you wish to use specific distributions/versions, please let us know. An important note is that the qcow2 images provided by some distributions (e.g. Ubuntu, Fedora), don't work well out of the box with Nimbus. The reason for this is that while Nimbus adds your ssh key to the root account of the virtual machine, these images do not allow direct login to the root account (they expect you to log in to a normal user account such as ubuntu or ec2-user and then use sudo).<br />
<br />
<h2>
Nimbus/Alamo networking improvements</h2>
The network device used by Nimbus virtual machines on Alamo has been changed from Realtek RTL-8139 to Virtio. After this change, our measurements show that network bandwidth to and from Nimbus virtual machines has improved by a factor of 3 or more. The Virtio device is supported by all of the existing virtual machine images that we tested. Your virtual machines should automatically detect this new device and benefit from the higher networking bandwidth. If you have any problems with networking on your virtual machines, please <a href="https://portal.futuregrid.org/help">submit a ticket</a>.
<br />
<h2>
Nimbus/Alamo authentication changes</h2>
Due to the expiration of a CA certificate, the Nimbus services on Alamo are now using a new host certificate from a different certificate authority. We apologize for the inconvenience, but this will require that you make some changes to your Nimbus client to continue to use Alamo.
The first change is to use a Nimbus cloud client that includes the CA certificates associated with our new Nimbus certificate. One way to accomplish this is to download the Nimbus cloud client version 022. An alternative is to modify your existing cloud client by manually adding the CA certificates to it. This can be accomplished by:<br />
<br />
<ol>
<li>Download the InCommon Server CA certificate and save it as nimbus-cloud-client-021/lib/certs/84df5188.0 </li>
<li>Go to the Comodo AddTrust page and download the AddTrust External CA Root certificate. Save it as nimbus-cloud-client-021/lib/certs/3c58f906.0 </li>
</ol>
The second change is to modify your nimbus-cloud-client-022/conf/alamo.conf file to have the DN of the new certificate, like so:<br />
<br />
<ul>
<li> vws.factory.identity=/C=US/2.5.4.17=78711/ST=TX/L=Austin/2.5.4.9=1 University Station/O=The University of Texas at Austin/OU=TACC - Texas Advanced Computing Center/CN=nimbus.futuregrid.tacc.utexas.edu </li>
</ul>
If you encounter any problems using Nimbus on Alamo, please <a href="https://portal.futuregrid.org/help">submit a ticket </a>for assistance.<br />
<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888243257368492046.post-42019467018883407432013-10-03T14:08:00.002-04:002013-10-03T15:24:02.599-04:00The response of Sierra's OpenStack is improved.It is good news that the response of Nova Client is improved on Sierra's OpenStack.<br />
<br />
This issue doesn't show up on Essex version, so India's OpenStack is fine. But Grizzly version has lots on Keystone's database, and it had been making the authentication process slow. We took a serious look and tuned MySQL configuration.<br />
<br />
Here's the result of the improvement.<br />
<br />
Before:
<br />
<pre style="-moz-border-radius: 5px; -webkit-border-radius: 5px; background: #f0f0f0; border-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid #CCCCCC; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: auto; line-height: 20px; overflow: auto; padding: 6px; text-align: left; width: 99%;"><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;"><span class="nv">$ </span><span class="nb">time </span>nova list
+--------------------------------------+--------+--------+---------------------+
| ID | Name | Status | Networks |
+--------------------------------------+--------+--------+---------------------+
| 8618a539-2162-41e6-92b1-c8177ebe100a | master | ACTIVE | private=10.35.23.9 |
| c373a455-e99c-45a6-be8f-ca75117fe9cb | node1 | ACTIVE | private=10.35.23.10 |
| 07eaa184-a8c6-4ece-9f35-5d3ba8c9c1e0 | node2 | ACTIVE | private=10.35.23.15 |
| bbc7408f-e8ba-45cb-b294-e857c53e9f7f | node3 | ACTIVE | private=10.35.23.55 |
+--------------------------------------+--------+--------+---------------------+
real <span style="color: #009eb8;">0m8.819s</span>
user 0m0.307s
sys 0m0.127s
</code></pre>
<br />
After:
<br />
<pre style="-moz-border-radius: 5px; -webkit-border-radius: 5px; background: #f0f0f0; border-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid #CCCCCC; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: auto; line-height: 20px; overflow: auto; padding: 6px; text-align: left; width: 99%;"><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;"><span class="nv">$ </span><span class="nb">time </span>nova list
+--------------------------------------+--------+--------+---------------------+
| ID | Name | Status | Networks |
+--------------------------------------+--------+--------+---------------------+
| 8618a539-2162-41e6-92b1-c8177ebe100a | master | ACTIVE | private=10.35.23.9 |
| c373a455-e99c-45a6-be8f-ca75117fe9cb | node1 | ACTIVE | private=10.35.23.10 |
| 07eaa184-a8c6-4ece-9f35-5d3ba8c9c1e0 | node2 | ACTIVE | private=10.35.23.15 |
| bbc7408f-e8ba-45cb-b294-e857c53e9f7f | node3 | ACTIVE | private=10.35.23.55 |
+--------------------------------------+--------+--------+---------------------+
real <span style="color: #009eb8;">0m0.929s</span>
user 0m0.309s
sys 0m0.118s
</code></pre>
<br />
Thanks,Koji Tanakahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09622546766258134013noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888243257368492046.post-24213114475829691792013-09-29T20:18:00.000-04:002013-10-03T15:24:37.828-04:00Try CoreOS and Docker at Futuregrid<a href="https://www.docker.io/" target="_blank">Docker</a> and <a href="http://coreos.com/" target="_blank">CoreOS</a> are interesting new software. You can try them on FutureGrid.<br />
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Before you try this, you need to have your FutureGrid account, of course, and should know how to use OpenStack at FutureGrid. Here's the link --> <a href="http://manual.futuregrid.org/openstackgrizzly.html">http://manual.futuregrid.org/openstackgrizzly.html</a> </blockquote>
<br />
First, login to sierra and setup your OpenStack environment.
<br />
<pre style="background: #f0f0f0; border: 1px dashed #CCCCCC; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: auto; line-height: 20px; overflow: auto; padding: 5px; text-align: left; width: 99%;"><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;">ssh username@sierra.futuregrid.org
module load novaclient
source .futuregrid/novarc
</code></pre>
<br />
Boot an instance with CoreOS image.
<br />
<pre style="background: #f0f0f0; border: 1px dashed #CCCCCC; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: auto; line-height: 20px; overflow: auto; padding: 5px; text-align: left; width: 99%;"><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;">nova boot coreos1 --flavor m1.small --image futuregrid/coreos --key_name keyname
</code></pre>
<br />
Check the status of the instance with "<code>nova list"</code>, and if it's "<code>ACTIVE"</code>, login to the instance
<br />
<pre style="background: #f0f0f0; border: 1px dashed #CCCCCC; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: auto; line-height: 20px; overflow: auto; padding: 5px; text-align: left; width: 99%;"><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;">ssh -i /path/to/your/pub-key core@10.35.23.119
</code></pre>
<pre style="background: #f0f0f0; border: 1px dashed #CCCCCC; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: auto; line-height: 20px; overflow: auto; padding: 5px; text-align: left; width: 99%;"><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;">Warning: Permanently added '10.35.23.119' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
______ ____ _____
/ ____/___ ________ / __ \/ ___/
/ / / __ \/ ___/ _ \/ / / /\__ \
/ /___/ /_/ / / / __/ /_/ /___/ /
\____/\____/_/ \___/\____//____/
core@coreos1 ~ $
</code></pre>
<br />
Execute "<code>echo Hello World!</code>" inside a container.
<br />
<pre style="background: #f0f0f0; border: 1px dashed #CCCCCC; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: auto; line-height: 20px; overflow: auto; padding: 5px; text-align: left; width: 99%;"><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;">docker run base /bin/echo Hello World!
</code></pre>
<pre style="background: #f0f0f0; border: 1px dashed #CCCCCC; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: auto; line-height: 20px; overflow: auto; padding: 5px; text-align: left; width: 99%;"><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;">Unable to find image 'base' (tag: latest) locally
Pulling repository base
b750fe79269d: Download complete
27cf78414709: Download complete
Hello World!
</code></pre>
<br />
What it does is, 1. download the "<code>base</code>" image, 2. execute "<code>echo Hello World!</code>". The downloading process only happens at the first time. So if you execute "<code>docker run base /bin/echo Hello World!</code>" again, you can see what I meant.<br />
<br />
Next, you can login to a container with this.
<br />
<pre style="background: #f0f0f0; border: 1px dashed #CCCCCC; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: auto; line-height: 20px; overflow: auto; padding: 5px; text-align: left; width: 99%;"><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;">docker run -i -t base /bin/bash
</code></pre>
<br />
If you check the OS with "<code>lsb_release -a</code>", you can find the base image is Ubuntu 12.10.
<br />
<pre style="background: #f0f0f0; border: 1px dashed #CCCCCC; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: auto; line-height: 20px; overflow: auto; padding: 5px; text-align: left; width: 99%;"><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;">root@d7a0470c0e16:/# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.10
Release: 12.10
Codename: quantal
root@d7a0470c0e16:/# exit
exit
core@coreos1 ~ $
</code></pre>
<br />
Next, execute a command in the background.
<br />
<pre style="background: #f0f0f0; border: 1px dashed #CCCCCC; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: auto; line-height: 20px; overflow: auto; padding: 5px; text-align: left; width: 99%;"><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;">docker run -i -t -d base /bin/ping www.google.com
</code></pre>
<pre style="background: #f0f0f0; border: 1px dashed #CCCCCC; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: auto; line-height: 20px; overflow: auto; padding: 5px; text-align: left; width: 99%;"><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;">81e7918c9724
</code></pre>
<br />
You can see the status of the container with this.
<br />
<pre style="background: #f0f0f0; border: 1px dashed #CCCCCC; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: auto; line-height: 20px; overflow: auto; padding: 5px; text-align: left; width: 99%;"><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;">docker ps
</code></pre>
<pre style="background: #f0f0f0; border: 1px dashed #CCCCCC; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: auto; line-height: 20px; overflow: auto; padding: 5px; text-align: left; width: 99%;"><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;">ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS
81e7918c9724 base:latest /bin/ping www.google 41 seconds ago Up 40 seconds
</code></pre>
<br />
Take a look at the container.
<br />
<pre style="background: #f0f0f0; border: 1px dashed #CCCCCC; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: auto; line-height: 20px; overflow: auto; padding: 5px; text-align: left; width: 99%;"><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;">docker logs 81e7918c9724
</code></pre>
<pre style="background: #f0f0f0; border: 1px dashed #CCCCCC; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: auto; line-height: 20px; overflow: auto; padding: 5px; text-align: left; width: 99%;"><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;">PING www.google.com (74.125.224.211) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from lax02s02-in-f19.1e100.net (74.125.224.211): icmp_req=1 ttl=53 time=9.96 ms
64 bytes from lax02s02-in-f19.1e100.net (74.125.224.211): icmp_req=2 ttl=53 time=9.97 ms
64 bytes from lax02s02-in-f19.1e100.net (74.125.224.211): icmp_req=3 ttl=53 time=10.0 ms
64 bytes from lax02s02-in-f19.1e100.net (74.125.224.211): icmp_req=4 ttl=53 time=9.95 ms
64 bytes from lax02s02-in-f19.1e100.net (74.125.224.211): icmp_req=5 ttl=53 time=10.0 ms
64 bytes from lax02s02-in-f19.1e100.net (74.125.224.211): icmp_req=6 ttl=53 time=9.96 ms
64 bytes from lax02s02-in-f19.1e100.net (74.125.224.211): icmp_req=7 ttl=53 time=9.95 ms
</code></pre>
<br />
You can attach to the container with this.
<br />
<pre style="background: #f0f0f0; border: 1px dashed #CCCCCC; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: auto; line-height: 20px; overflow: auto; padding: 5px; text-align: left; width: 99%;"><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;">docker attach 81e7918c9724
</code></pre>
* When you want to detach, press "<code>Ctrl-p</code>" and "<code>Ctrl-q</code>".<br />
<br />
Terminate the command.
<br />
<pre style="background: #f0f0f0; border: 1px dashed #CCCCCC; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: auto; line-height: 20px; overflow: auto; padding: 5px; text-align: left; width: 99%;"><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;">docker kill 81e7918c9724
docker ps
</code></pre>
<br />
So, now you think your container is gone, but actually what you did is stored. You can see the list with this.
<br />
<pre style="background: #f0f0f0; border: 1px dashed #CCCCCC; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: auto; line-height: 20px; overflow: auto; padding: 5px; text-align: left; width: 99%;"><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;">docker ps -a -notrunc
</code></pre>
<pre style="background: #f0f0f0; border: 1px dashed #CCCCCC; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: auto; line-height: 20px; overflow: auto; padding: 5px; text-align: left; width: 99%;"><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;">ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS
1c94ff1e5c6a180c525e7dc709e59d3f5275d38bcfbc057862eeb3ce8821e1e8 base:latest /bin/ping www.google.com 13 minutes ago Exit 0
64cf0b3a9f6b30bf794f312ec72596a7bb3b465dc2d93c1513228ecee8da3238 base:latest /bin/bash 24 minutes ago Exit 0
a5000a2ba33503775eab2e0740b906971e29abad87d934d48efff6c6ab061fcd base:latest /bin/echo Hello World! 37 minutes ago Exit 0
</code></pre>
<br />
You can delete one with "<code>docker rm <ID></code>" like this.
<br />
<pre style="background: #f0f0f0; border: 1px dashed #CCCCCC; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: auto; line-height: 20px; overflow: auto; padding: 5px; text-align: left; width: 99%;"><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;">docker rm 1c94ff1e5c6a180c525e7dc709e59d3f5275d38bcfbc057862eeb3ce8821e1e8
docker ps -a -notrunc
</code></pre>
<br />
Also, if you commit one of them, it will be saved as an image.
<br />
<pre style="background: #f0f0f0; border: 1px dashed #CCCCCC; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: auto; line-height: 20px; overflow: auto; padding: 5px; text-align: left; width: 99%;"><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;">docker commit -m "My first container" 1c94ff1e5c6a180c525e7dc709e59d3f5275d38bcfbc057862eeb3ce8821e1e8 username/first_container
</code></pre>
<br />
So, now you have your first custom image on the list. Means that you can install software packages, add something more as needed, commit the change, and execute a command or run a daemon very quickly. It's all done inside the container!<br />
<pre style="background: #f0f0f0; border: 1px dashed #CCCCCC; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: auto; line-height: 20px; overflow: auto; padding: 5px; text-align: left; width: 99%;"><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;">docker images
</code></pre>
<pre style="background: #f0f0f0; border: 1px dashed #CCCCCC; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: auto; line-height: 20px; overflow: auto; padding: 5px; text-align: left; width: 99%;"><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;">REPOSITORY TAG ID CREATED SIZE
username/first_container latest 40cd6f5b996e 12 seconds ago 16.39 kB (virtual 180.1 MB)
base latest b750fe79269d 6 months ago 24.65 kB (virtual 180.1 MB)
base ubuntu-12.10 b750fe79269d 6 months ago 24.65 kB (virtual 180.1 MB)
base ubuntu-quantal b750fe79269d 6 months ago 24.65 kB (virtual 180.1 MB)
base ubuntu-quantl b750fe79269d 6 months ago 24.65 kB (virtual 180.1 MB)
</code></pre>
<br />
<br />
...So, with using Docker, you can build and train your system as a container and save it like a file very quickly. (Docker only overwrites the differences from the base image and save it in "<code>/var/lib/docker/containers/</code>", which is why it's so quick.) Also, the great thing about Docker is you can share your image on <a href="https://index.docker.io/">https://index.docker.io/</a>.<br />
<br />
One more interesting thing to say here is, the CoreOS is based on Google’s ChromeOS that automatically updates. So CoreOS is like a ChromeOS on the Cloud, but it's, of course, more than that. To my knowledge, the idea of CoreOS is to build your massive cluster on the Cloud as easily and quickly as possible.<br />
<br />
I'll do more research about them. So please keep checking this blog. Thanks!<br />
<br />
For more information:<br />
<ul>
<li>Docker - <a href="https://www.docker.io/" target="_blank">https://www.docker.io/ </a></li>
<li>CoreOS - <a href="http://coreos.com/">http://coreos.com/</a></li>
<li>LXC - <a href="http://lxc.sourceforge.net/">http://lxc.sourceforge.net/</a></li>
<li>AUFS - <a href="https://github.com/sfjro/aufs3-linux">https://github.com/sfjro/aufs3-linux</a></li>
</ul>
Koji Tanakahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09622546766258134013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888243257368492046.post-81040586595106685152013-09-24T11:00:00.001-04:002013-09-24T12:23:26.506-04:00Please participate in the FutureGrid user survey<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">We welcome your feedback all year round, but this week we're conducting an anonymous user survey designed to help us recognize our strengths, identify areas that call for improvement, and focus our time, energy, and resources to most effectively meet the needs of the FutureGrid community. </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">We have sent emails to all FutureGrid users. Please check your inbox and perhaps your spam folder, if necessary. The survey is brief and should only take a few minutes of your time. We would appreciate hearing from you in the next day or two. If you have already responded, we thank you for your thoughtful insights.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">We will be sending out a reminder email to users who have not yet responded. Hopefully you'll receive it and be able to participate. It means a lot to us when community members take time to share about their experiences with FutureGrid.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">We will be reading the survey feedback carefully and factoring it in as we plan for Year 5. Anything requiring immediate attention from FutureGrid systems and support teams should be addressed through the help ticket system: </span><a href="https://portal.futuregrid.org/help" style="background-color: white; color: #006633; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;">https://portal.futuregrid.org/help</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888243257368492046.post-40107071521295717012013-09-19T15:22:00.000-04:002013-09-19T15:38:56.891-04:00CentOS 6, SL 6 and Debian 7 are available on OpenStackWe are happy to announce that we have added some more useful cloud images on our OpenStack. Now we have CentOS 6, Scientific Linux 6 and Debian 7. And interesting CoreOS too.<br />
<br />
<pre style="background: #f0f0f0; border: 1px dashed #CCCCCC; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: auto; line-height: 20px; overflow: auto; padding: 5px; text-align: left; width: 99%;"><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;">[ktanaka@s1 images]$ nova image-list|grep futuregrid
| 53fab752-757e-4b2a-bce6-9f74ba76be26 | futuregrid/centos-6 | ACTIVE | |
| d5b19d33-8440-4069-815a-de9d8629dae3 | futuregrid/coreos | ACTIVE | |
| d40facd1-7496-42b7-8bc7-70235396d349 | futuregrid/debian-7 | ACTIVE | |
| 18c437e5-d65e-418f-a739-9604cef8ab33 | futuregrid/fedora-18 | ACTIVE | |
| 1c46e959-5805-47da-a079-58900787ef25 | futuregrid/fedora-19 | ACTIVE | |
| 8f289ebb-d8fb-48f6-8429-430110eacb4a | futuregrid/sl-6 <span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><- Scientific Linux</span> | ACTIVE | |
| 1a5fd55e-79b9-4dd5-ae9b-ea10ef3156e9 | futuregrid/ubuntu-12.04 | ACTIVE | |
| f7459a50-3ef4-40f5-a7d7-955fb3af6432 | futuregrid/ubuntu-13.10 | ACTIVE | |
</code></pre>
<br />
You can boot your instance with this:<br />
<pre style="background: #f0f0f0; border: 1px dashed #CCCCCC; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: auto; line-height: 20px; overflow: auto; padding: 5px; text-align: left; width: 99%;"><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;">nova boot --image <image name> --flavor m1.small --key-name <your key> <instance name>
</code></pre>
<br />
For more information about how-to, please visit our <a href="http://manual.futuregrid.org/openstackgrizzly.html" target="_blank">OpenStack Grizzly Manual</a>. <br />
<br />
Also, if you're interested in CoreOS, please check the link.<br />
<a href="http://coreos.com/docs/using-coreos/">http://coreos.com/docs/using-coreos/</a><br />
<br />
Thanks,Koji Tanakahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09622546766258134013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888243257368492046.post-32282844750632018002013-09-13T11:01:00.003-04:002013-09-19T14:51:21.074-04:00OpenStack Tips: Download a cloud-image on India's OpenStack and upload to Sierra's OpenStackHere's how to download an image from India's OpenStack and upload it to Sierra's OpenStack.<br />
<br />
1. On Sierra, make sure you've done step1 and step2 of <a href="https://portal.futuregrid.org/manual/openstack/grizzly" target="_blank">our grizzly tutorial</a>. <br />
<br />
2. On your local machine, download your credential from india.
<br />
<pre style="background: #f0f0f0; border: 1px dashed #CCCCCC; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: auto; line-height: 20px; overflow: auto; padding: 5px; text-align: left; width: 99%;"><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;">scp -rp [username]@india.futuregrid.org:~/.futuregrid .futuregrid.india
</code></pre>
3. On your local machine, upload the credential to sierra. (*Do not
overwrite your.futuregrid on sierra.)
<br />
<pre style="background: #f0f0f0; border: 1px dashed #CCCCCC; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: auto; line-height: 20px; overflow: auto; padding: 5px; text-align: left; width: 99%;"><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;">scp -rp .futuregrid.india </code><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;"><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;">[username]</code>@sierra.futuregrid.org:~/.futuregrid.india
</code></pre>
4. On Sierra, load india's credential.
<br />
<pre style="background: #f0f0f0; border: 1px dashed #CCCCCC; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: auto; line-height: 20px; overflow: auto; padding: 5px; text-align: left; width: 99%;"><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;">source ~/.futuregrid.india/openstack/novarc
module load novaclient
</code></pre>
5. On Sierra, check your image id and download your image/ramdisk/kernel.
<br />
<pre style="background: #f0f0f0; border: 1px dashed #CCCCCC; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: auto; line-height: 20px; overflow: auto; padding: 5px; text-align: left; width: 99%;"><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;">nova image-list|grep [name]<name>
glance image-download <id>[id] --file [file name to save]<file name="" save="" to="">
</file></id></name></code></pre>
6. On Sierra, load sierra's novarc.
<br />
<pre style="background: #f0f0f0; border: 1px dashed #CCCCCC; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: auto; line-height: 20px; overflow: auto; padding: 5px; text-align: left; width: 99%;"><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;">source ~/.futuregrid/novarc
</code></pre>
7. On Sierra, upload them.
<br />
<pre style="background: #f0f0f0; border: 1px dashed #CCCCCC; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: auto; line-height: 20px; overflow: auto; padding: 5px; text-align: left; width: 99%;"><code style="color: black; word-wrap: normal;">glance image-create --name=<kernel name=""> --disk-format=aki --container-format=aki < kernel-file
glance image-create --name=<ramdisk name=""> --disk-format=ari --container-format=ari < ramdisk-name
glance image-create --name=<name image="" of="" your=""> --disk-format=ami --container-format=ami --property kernel_id=[kernel_id]<kernel_id> --property ramdisk_id=[ramdisk_id]<ramdisk_id> < your-image-file.img
</ramdisk_id></kernel_id></name></ramdisk></kernel></code></pre>
<br />Koji Tanakahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09622546766258134013noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888243257368492046.post-29146585311844199912013-07-25T16:54:00.000-04:002013-07-25T16:55:25.764-04:00Science Clouds or It Takes a Village to Give a Talk on Cloud Computing<br />
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Wednesday July 24, 2013 Kate Keahey, David Lifka, Manish Parashar, Warren Smith, Carol Song, and Shaowen Wang facilitated a Birds of a Feather at XSEDE13 entitled Science Clouds or It Takes a Village to Give a Talk on Cloud Computing. <br />
<br />
"The objective of this BOF is to bring together a community of current and prospective XSEDE cloud users and both provide and solicit information on scientific cloud use. We will describe existing cloud offerings in academic space, such as FutureGrid and Red Cloud, describe examples of successful scientific use and discuss with the participants the challenges the community faces when accessing clouds and ways of addressing them, as part of an “approach clinic”. We will then brainstorm ideas on approaches, tools and initiatives that could make the current use of cloud easier and how to evaluate the potential of infrastructure clouds in the context of specific application groups."<br />
<br />
For a more complete description of the BOF, please view the <a href="http://sched.co/YcYA3J">XSEDE13 schedule</a>. <br />
<br />
Download the slides for the BOF <a href="https://portal.futuregrid.org/sites/default/files/xsede2013bof.pdf">here</a>. [PPTX]Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888243257368492046.post-73780876272364654212013-07-25T16:27:00.003-04:002013-07-25T16:27:56.131-04:00HOW TO MAKE A MOOC<h2 style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 0.667em; margin-top: 0.667em;">
<span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">FutureGrid community members are invited to create MOOC resources related to the work they are developing through their use of FutureGrid. </span></h2>
<h2 style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 0.667em; margin-top: 0.667em;">
<span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">For information on how to create a FutureGrid MOOC, please visit the How To Make A MOOC page: </span><a href="https://portal.futuregrid.org/mooc" style="color: #006633; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;">https://portal.futuregrid.org/mooc</a></h2>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888243257368492046.post-51168351529383669632013-07-25T16:26:00.000-04:002013-07-25T16:30:39.225-04:00FutureGrid XSEDE13 Presentations highlight MOOCs<h2 style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 0.667em; margin-top: 0.667em;">
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Details about how MOOC's are opening up exciting opportunities for education and training in HPC, Grid, and Cloud computing can be found in these two presentations delivered on July 24, 2013 at XSEDE13, San Diego, CA:</span></h2>
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<a href="https://portal.futuregrid.org/sites/default/files/OGFMOOC-July24-2013.pptx" style="color: #006633; text-decoration: none;">Remarks on MOOC's: Open Grid Forum BOF</a> [PTTX] - Geoffrey Fox</div>
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<a href="https://portal.futuregrid.org/sites/default/files/FG-XSEDE13-July24-2013.pptx" style="color: #006633; text-decoration: none;">FutureGrid UAB Meeting</a> [PTTX] - Gregor von Laszewski and Geoffrey Fox</div>
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As part of an ongoing commitment to education FutureGrid announces prototypes of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) designed for use in class or as out of class supplemental material for courses covering HPC, Grid, and Cloud Computing. </div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3Ind-tQ6hyphenhyphenSl-sJVFrLzBhdeOvhuWUwtpqckcMkBuzSczsl4LbkxVWVJgKyECTNR_hj0QKwjnHZiedwtsxl5DHbhBd7A8FZnhfIrzhDobPvw1WextLAl2QgsykSHbZ4qzBwYlSdtWNdnD/s1600/screenshot.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3Ind-tQ6hyphenhyphenSl-sJVFrLzBhdeOvhuWUwtpqckcMkBuzSczsl4LbkxVWVJgKyECTNR_hj0QKwjnHZiedwtsxl5DHbhBd7A8FZnhfIrzhDobPvw1WextLAl2QgsykSHbZ4qzBwYlSdtWNdnD/s320/screenshot.JPG" width="320" /></a>Currently two FutureGrid MOOCs are available.</div>
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The <a href="https://fgmoocs.appspot.com/project" style="color: #006633; text-decoration: none;">Intro to FutureGrid MOOC</a>, divided into six units, covers core capabilities: setting up a portal account and project; using non virtualized HPC nodes; and explores two approaches to virtual machines: using OpenStack Grizzly release and using the Eucalyptus system. Instructors for the Intro to FutureGrid MOOC are FutureGrid PI Geoffrey Fox and FutureGrid Software Architect Gregor von Laszewski.</div>
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In addition FutureGrid MOOCs will cover advanced topics. We begin with FutureGrid TEOS Team Leader Renato J. Figueiredo's <a href="https://fgmoocs.appspot.com/ipop" style="color: #006633; text-decoration: none;">IP-over-P2P (IPOP) MOOC</a>: Network Virtualization in Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Cloud Computing. The IPOP MOOC has twelve units of instruction. Students who take this MOOC will learn about the role of virtual networks in IaaS, the key abstractions and techniques used to implement them, challenges and techniques applied to network virtualization across multiple IaaS clouds, and will learn about the architecture and usage of the open-source IPOP virtual network through hands-on exercises.</div>
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Further MOOC components are under development and will be available in the coming months. Comments and suggestions are welcome. </div>
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FutureGrid community members are invited to create MOOC resources related to the work they are developing through their use of FutureGrid. For information on how to create a FutureGrid MOOC, please visit <a href="https://portal.futuregrid.org/mooc" style="color: #006633; text-decoration: none;">https://portal.futuregrid.org/mooc</a></div>
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The FutureGrid MOOCs are available at: <a href="https://fgmoocs.appspot.com/explorer" style="color: #006633; text-decoration: none;">https://fgmoocs.appspot.com</a></div>
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