A study on decentralized control multi-site virtual cluster systems in wide area environments

2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23700058
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Computer system/Network
• Research Institution: Nara Institute of Science and Technology (2012-2013); Osaka University (2011)
• Principal Investigator: ICHIKAWA Kohei 奈良先端科学技術大学院大学, 情報科学研究科, 准教授 (90511676)
• Project Period (FY): 2011 – 2012
• Keywords: 仮想クラスタシステム / ハイパフォーマンスコンピューティング / 分散システム

Research Abstract

In this study, a decentralized control virtual cluster system is designed and implemented. In traditional cluster systems, a centralized control structure has been accepted. In such a centralized control cluster system, all information on the structure of the cluster system, user accounts, and job queues is stored only on a master node of the cluster. This kind of structure is not scalable and not appropriate for widely distributed computing systems. In the proposed architecture, all data related to a cluster system are stored on each compute node in a distributed manner.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Implementation and Evaluation of Multiple Deduplication Methods for VM Disk Images Composing a Virtual Cluster (2013)
  • Author(s): Daiki Morita, Kohei Ichikawa, Hirotake Abe, Susumu Date and Shinji Shimojo
  • Journal Title: INFORMATION - An International Interdisciplinary Journal Volume: Vol.16, No.8(B) Pages: 6055-6068
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] オーバレイネットワークを用いたマルチサイト仮想クラスタ構築システム (2012)
  • Author(s): 多田大輝,市川昊平,伊達進,阿部洋丈, 下條真司
  • Journal Title: 情報処理学会論文誌 : コンピューティングシステム Volume: 第40号, vo.5, no.5 Pages: 76-89
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] Protein Structure Modeling in a Grid Computing Environment (2013)
  • Author(s): Daniel Li, Brian Tsui, Charles Xue, Jason Haga, Kohei Ichikawa and Susumu Date
  • Organizer: 9th IEEE International Conference on eScience
  • Place of Presentation: Beijing, China
  • Year and Date: 2013-10-23
• [Presentation] PRAGMA VC Sharing Automation Phase 4 (2013)
  • Author(s): Pongsakorn U-chupala, Kohei Ichikawa, Luca Clementi, Nadya Williams, Philip Papadopoulos, Yoshio Tanaka, Akihiko Ota and Weicheng Huang
  • Organizer: Pragma25 Workshop
  • Place of Presentation: Beijing, China
  • Year and Date: 2013-10-18
• [Presentation] Deployment of Virtual Clusters for Molecular Docking Experiments on the PRAGMA Cloud (2013)
  • Author(s): Kohei Ichikawa, Kevin Lam, Karen Rodriguez, Wen-Wai Yim, Jason Haga
  • Organizer: Pragma25 Workshop
  • Place of Presentation: Beijing, China
  • Year and Date: 2013-10-18
• [Presentation] An implementation of a multi-site virtual cluster cloud (2013)
  • Author(s): Pongsakorn U-chupala, Putchong Uthayopas, Kohei Ichikawa, Susumu Date and Hirotake Abe
  • Organizer: The 10th International Joint Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering (JCSSE'13), pp.155-159
  • Place of Presentation: Khon Kaen, Thailand
  • Year and Date: 2013-05-29
• [Presentation] Network throughput-aware routing for Pragma Cloud (2013)
  • Author(s): Kohei Ichikawa, Taiki Tada, Susumu Date, Shinji Shimojo, Hirotake Abe, Nawawit Kes, Putchong Uthayopas, Bong Zoebir, Lim Teck Leong Derrick, Francis Lee Bu Sung, Cindy Zheng and Philip Papadopoulos
  • Organizer: PRAGMA24 Workshop
  • Place of Presentation: Bangkok, Thailand
  • Year and Date: 2013-03-22
• [Presentation] International Clouds using OpenFlow (2013)
  • Author(s): Kohei Ichikawa
  • Organizer: PRAGMA Cloud Computing and Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Technology Workshop
  • Place of Presentation: Bangkok, Thailand
  • Year and Date: 2013-03-20
• [Presentation] Implementation and Evaluation of Multiple Deduplication Methods of VM Disk Images Composing a Virtual Cluster (2012)
  • Author(s): Daiki Morita, Kohei Ichikawa, Hirotake Abe, Susumu Date and Shinji Shimojo
  • Organizer: The 3rd International Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing & Applications (IWUCA 2012)
  • Place of Presentation: Hong Kong
  • Year and Date: 2012-12-22
• [Presentation] オーバレイネットワークを用いたマルチサイト仮想クラスタ構築システム (2012)
  • Author(s): 多田大輝, 市川昊平, 伊達 進, 阿部洋丈, 下條真司
  • Organizer: 先進的計算基盤システムシンポジウム(sacsis2012)
  • Place of Presentation: 兵庫県神戸市(pp. 219-226)
  • Year and Date: 2012-05-18
• [Presentation] 仮想クラスタを構成する複数ディスクイメージの効率的移送手法 (2012)
  • Author(s): 森田大希, 市川昊平, 阿部洋丈, 伊達進, 下條真司
  • Organizer: 第121回システムソフトウェアとオペレーティング・システム研究会, pp.1-9
  • Place of Presentation: 沖縄県恩納村
  • Year and Date: 2012-05-08
• [Presentation] An implementation of OpenFlow based virtual network for virtual clusters on the PRAGMA testbed (2012)
  • Author(s): Taiki Tada, KoheiIchikawa, Susumu Date, Shinji Shimojo, Yoshio Tanaka, Akihiko Ota, Tomohiro Kudoh, Cindy Zheng and Philip Papadopoulos
  • Organizer: PRAGMA22 Workshop
  • Place of Presentation: Melbourne, Australia
  • Year and Date: 2012-04-19
• [Presentation] An Openflow based virtual network environment for Pragma Cloud virtual clusters (2012)
  • Author(s): Kohei Ichikawa, Taiki Tada, Susumu Date, Shinji Shimojo, Yoshio Tanaka, Akihiko Ota, Tomohiro Kudoh, Cindy Zheng and Philip Papadopoulos
  • Organizer: The 22th PRAGMA Workshop
  • Place of Presentation: Melbourne, Australia
  • Year and Date: 2012-04-18
• [Presentation] A Virtual Cluster Manager using a Hierarchical Management Model for Cloud Infrastructure (2011)
  • Author(s): Pongsakorn U-chupala, Kohei Ichikawa, Hirotake Abe, Susumu Date, and Shinji Shimojo
  • Organizer: The 6th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Technologies and Applications
  • Place of Presentation: Seoul, Korea(pp.223-228)
  • Year and Date: 2011-12-16
• [Presentation] Towards multi-site virtual cluster deployment (2011)
  • Author(s): Susumu Date, Taiki Tada, Kohei Ichikawa, and Shinji Shimojo
  • Organizer: The 6th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Technologies & Applications
  • Place of Presentation: Seoul, Korea(pp.29-32)
  • Year and Date: 2011-12-15
• [Presentation] A P2P-based Virtual Cluster Computing using PIAX (2011)
  • Author(s): Kohei Ichikawa, Susumu Date, Yasuyuki Kusumoto, and Shinji Shimojo
  • Organizer: The 2011 IEEE Conference on Granular Computing (GrC 2011)
  • Place of Presentation: Kaohsiung, Taiwan(pp.294-299)
  • Year and Date: 2011-11-10