IRMOS Newsletter Issue N 5 / January 2011 In this issue... Editorial Editorial p.1 Highlights p.2 Special topic: The IRMOS Repository p.5 Recent project outcomes p.6 Keep in touch with IRMOS p.8 Dear Reader, I am pleased to announce the fifth issue of the IRMOS newsletter. IRMOS has successfully achieved its final goal the provision of a new generation of Service Oriented Cloud Computing environment which is available as four major bundles including more than fifty software components. More details about it can be found in the special topic of this newsletter issue. During the past months, IRMOS attended several major events showing its results as part of tutorials, presentations and live demos, which raised the interest of the audience and contributed to increase the impact of the project on industry and research communities. In this newsletter we have selected the most representative ones: The 3 rd IRMOS Project Public Seminar The Real-Time QoS Enabled Cloud, the ICT 2010: Digitally Driven and the Internet of Services 2010: Collaboration Meeting for FP6 & FP7 projects. Moreover, we recommend you a list sites where you can find all IRMOS related material and keep in touch with the IRMOS researchers beyond the project end. IRMOS is a research project partially funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2011, ICT-2007.1.2. If you are interested in the project you can find further information at http://www.irmosproject.eu Georgina Gallizo (High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, Dissemination Leader of IRMOS) IRMOS Newsletter Issue N 5 1
Highlights IRMOS got the Best Paper Award in the IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications 2010 All along the project lifetime (February 2008 January 2011), we have achieved general awareness and understanding of the IRMOS results through external presence: o 111 members in the IRMOS LinkedIn Group o More than 600 downloads of public deliverables, papers and other material since end August 2010 o More than 650 views to the YouTube IRMOS channel since September 2010 o More than 6000 people potentially reached through conferences and other events IRMOS brought together the Service Oriented Infrastructure and the real-time communities: o Wide set of journal and conference papers presenting the joint approach o IRMOS got the Best Paper Award in the IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications 2010 with the paper Virtualised e-learning with Real-Time Guarantees on the IRMOS Platform IRMOS performed successful live demos at major events, such as the ICT2010, the Bell Labs Open Days and the IoS2010 IRMOS is one of the Cloud Computing flagship research projects in Europe, with international visibility through o EC initiatives (EU-Japan symposium, Future Internet) o presence in international conferences and events IRMOS achieved high visibility towards the industrial audience (at European and International level) leading to a mature exploitation strategy IRMOS organized its 3 rd IRMOS Project Public Seminar The Real-Time QoS Enabled Cloud, September 2010, in the University of Oslo, Norway 3 rd IRMOS Project Public Seminar The Real-Time QoS Enabled Cloud, September 2010, Oslo, Norway The 3 rd IRMOS Project Public Seminar The Real-Time QoS Enabled Cloud took place on 16 September 2010, in the University of Oslo, Norway. This seminar presented the results from the IRMOS project on novel approaches to support real-time QoS guarantees for interactive real-time multimedia applications on service oriented infrastructures. The seminar covered our research on how to describe and model complex interactive applications, how to execute and monitor distributed applications that are executed on Infrastructure as a Service locations and future plans on how to achieve fault tolerance in the form of migration to different resources in case of failure and renegotiation in case of performance estimation errors. Furthermore, challenges in QoS enabled data storage subsystems were also presented. The seminar consisted on different presentations from several partners in the IRMOS consortium. You can find them in the project website publications area: http://www.irmosproject.eu/publications/ IRMOS Newsletter Issue N 2 2
ICT 2010: Digitally Driven, September 2010, Brussels, Belgium The IRMOS project had a booth in the exhibition area of the ICT 2010: Digitally Driven, 27-29 September 2010, Brussels, Belgium, where live demos were shown to the visitors The ICT 2010: Digitally Driven took place on 27-29 September 2010 in Brussels (Belgium), organised by the European Commission and hosted by the Belgian Presidency of the European Union. The IRMOS project was present in the event with a booth in the exhibition area. Live demos of the IRMOS results were presented during the three days of the event, creating high interest among the attendees. The IRMOS video was shown continuously within the booth and several IRMOS posters illustrated the project results on the booth walls. Furthermore, dissemination material was distributed among the attendees (ball pens, bags, the IRMOS Factsheets, Newsletter and flyers). You can find more information about the event at: http://ec.europa.eu/ information_society/events/ict/2010/index_en.htm Figure 1: Gee Rittenhouse (Director Research Bell Labs) and Jean-Francois Picquet (Director Bell Labs Program Management) during their visit to the IRMOS demo in the ICT 2010: Digitally Driven, September 2010, Brussels, Belgium IRMOS Newsletter Issue N 2 N 5 3
IRMOS presented several live demos in the Internet of Services 2010: Collaboration Meeting for FP6 & FP7 projects, 19-20 October 2010, Brussels, Belgium Internet of Services 2010: Collaboration Meeting for FP6 & FP7 projects, October 2010, Brussels, Belgium The IRMOS project was well represented, with the attendance of a significant number of project delegates in the Internet of Services 2010: Collaboration Meeting for FP6 & FP7 projects, 19-20 October 2010, Brussels. IRMOS co-chaired the session of the Virtualized Service Platforms collaboration working group (CWG), co-chaired by Klaus Satzke, ALUD, and chaired the session of the QoS & SLAs CWG, chaired by Dimosthenis Kyriazis, NTUA. Live demos of the IRMOS project were shown in both sessions, creating high expectation among the participants, some of which expressed their interest to use some of our results. Furthermore, five IRMOS posters where shown on the walls of the hall where the event took place and IRMOS dissemination material was distributed to the wide audience (IRMOS flyer, Newsletter, Factsheets, ball pens and bags). More information about the IoS 2010 can be found at: http://ec.europa.eu/ information_society/events/ssai/ios/index_en.htm Figure 2: Internet of Services 2010: Collaboration Meeting for FP6 & FP7 projects, October 2010, Brussels, Belgium - IRMOS posters in the hall area (top); Spyridon Gogouvitis (NTUA) during the IRMOS demo in the QoS&SLAs session (bottom) IRMOS Newsletter Issue N 2 4
Special Topic: The IRMOS Repository IRMOS is providing a new generation of Service Oriented Cloud Computing environment which is available as four major bundles including more than fifty software components. IRMOS addresses the three main cloud service models: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS). You can find more detailed information about the IRMOS Cloud Solution by clicking on the IRMOS Solution pictures at: http://www.irmosproject.eu/ The main objective of IRMOS is to enable real-time interaction and collaboration between people, using distributed multimedia applications running on top of a cloud infrastructure, where processing, storage and networking are delivered with guaranteed levels of service. The IRMOS approach and technical solutions constitute a new generation of Service Oriented Cloud Computing environment, which is available as four major bundles including more than fifty software components. The open source software (OSS) components of the IRMOS project are hosted in a repository created in SourceForge. The components are classified per bundle: IRMOS Software as a Service (SaaS), provided by a set of tools and a specific methodology for the creation and adaptation of interactive applications for virtualized real-time service infrastructures (http://irmossaas.sourceforge.net) IRMOS Service Engineering Tools, part of the Platform as a Service (PaaS) cloud service model, supporting the application modelling and performance estimation (http://irmosserviceeng.sourceforge.net) IRMOS Service Management Tools, part of the Platform as a Service (PaaS) cloud service model, supporting the deployment and management of applications at runtime (http://irmosservicemng.sourceforge.net) IRMOS Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), provided by the IRMOS Intelligent Service Oriented Network Infrastructure (ISONI), offering virtualized computing, networking and storage capabilities (http://irmosiaas.sourceforge.net) For those non-open source IRMOS software components, a contact email address will be indicated in the IRMOS website home page, so that any interested person can get access to more information about them (license, availability, features, etc) Figure 3: IRMOS: a new generation of Service Oriented Cloud Computing environment IRMOS Newsletter Issue N 2 N 5 5
Recent project outcomes Major outcomes during the period September 2010 to January 2011 are addressing topics related to the user requirements and market analysis, the overall architecture, the IRMOS platform and infrastructure domains and the integrated prototype. Major outcomes since the latest Newsletter issue (during the period September 2010 to January 2011) are related to the following topics: The process followed in IRMOS to collect and implement the user requirements has been analysed. The strict traceability of the user requirements through the architecture, the functional building blocks implemented in the technical WPs and the key features and test-cases used for the evaluation of the prototype (in its different versions) led us to consider the methodology followed in the project a success to guarantee the adequate implementation of the user requirements. (For more information on the topic see D2.1.3 Final version of Requirements Analysis Report ) An analysis has been conducted on the current market situation with a special focus being on the Cloud market in Europe. At present there are both positive and negative signals. On one side the UK is the strongest cloud computing market within Europe while it is expected that other countries like Germany and France will increase their cloud market within the coming years. However, the situation is not so optimistic for countries like Spain, Greece and Italy where it is expected that a slow economic recovery will also affect the Cloud market. (For more information on the topic see D2.1.3 Final version of Requirements Analysis Report ) The final version of the IRMOS overall architecture has been released. The corresponding report describes in detail, the overall functionality of the IRMOS platform, the capabilities of each layer following the SPI cloud model (Service, Platform, Infrastructure), the individual components and their interactions. It explains the functionality of all building blocks and covers the real-time, virtualization, business and security aspects of the project with respect to the relation of IRMOS Service Oriented Infrastructure with the cloud and *aas concepts for agility, scalability and reliability. (For more information on the topic see D3.1.4 Final version of IRMOS Overall Architecture ) Improvements on the design and implementation of the so called IRMOS Framework Services have been performed. They consist on a family of tools and services that work closely together in order to provide the core Platform-asa-Service (PaaS) functionality of the overall IRMOS platform. These capabilities include issues such as resource provider discovery, advance reservation, workflow execution management, monitoring, Service Level Agreement (SLA) management, performance estimation, and application modelling among others. (For more information on the topic see D5.3.1 Final tools, specification language and framework services ) IRMOS Newsletter Issue N 2 6
In the IRMOS infrastructure domain, also known as ISONI (Intelligent Service Oriented Network Infrastructure), research has been conducted on the following topics: o The ISONI SLA Manager responsible for automated negotiation of Service Level Agreements (SLA) for deployment of Virtual Service Networks (VSN). (For more information on the topic see D7.2.2 Final version of Path Management Architecture ) o The ISONI Path Manager architecture, controlling multiple concurrently deployed VSN isolated connections on a common infrastructure by repeatedly discovering, metering and assigning network resource capacities. (For more information on the topic see D7.2.2 Final version of Path Management Architecture ) o The final ISONI Prototype has been finalized. This includes, on the one hand, all Intelligent Networking related components within the IRMOS infrastructure domain (i.e. the individual components for connectivity, traffic management, flow control and path supervision) and, on the other hand, all components related to the IRMOS Execution Environment (covering features addressing formal description language for application requirements, real-time enabled Execution Environment, real-time enabled storage processing unit, resource (processing and storage) reconfiguration (re-negotiation), service fault tolerance and recovery and live migration). (For more information on the topic see D6.1.3 Extended Prototype of Execution Environment and D7.5.2 Final ISONI Prototype ) The initial IRMOS Integrated Prototype was successfully finalised. Some related results are already publicly available: o A number of test cases have been executed over the testbed in order to evaluate the functionality of the IRMOS prototype. The corresponding report maps the results of the test cases back to the user requirements, innovations and the IRMOS capabilities expected from the validation scenarios. This helped to ensure that the evaluation of IRMOS is complete and all user requirements have been taken in consideration. (For more information see D8.2.3 Final version of Testing and Evaluation Report ) o The demonstrator of IRMOS has been designed and developed to show the innovations of the project using the individual characteristics of the three validation scenarios: Interactive Real-time elearning, Digital Film Postproduction and Virtual and Augmented Reality (VAR). The demonstrator has been designed along the phases that an application should cover to be executed in IRMOS, from the design, modelling and benchmarking to the actual SLA negotiation, deployment and execution of the application to be used by distributed clients. (For more information see D8.3.2 Final Demonstrator ) IRMOS Newsletter Issue N 2 N 5 7
Keep in touch with IRMOS The IRMOS Project comes to its end on 31 January 2011. However, the project results will stay alive beyond the project end. Here we recommend you a list of sites where you can find all IRMOS related material and keep in touch with the IRMOS researchers: The IRMOS website, http://www.irmosproject.eu, will be maintained at least three years beyond the project end. Through the website, visitors have access to public deliverables, publications, presentations and other pieces of information related to the project results. The IRMOS Project Repository in SourceForge is hosting the OSS components of IRMOS. They are classified within four major bundles containing more than fifty software components (c.f. IRMOS Project Repository section of this newsletter). They are also accessible through the IRMOS website, where you can also find contact information related to non-open source components. The IRMOS group in LinkedIn is open to everybody who is interested to join it, both within and outside the IRMOS consortium. The group is accessible through http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostpopular=&gid=2099046. The group will continue being used by its members as a discussion forum about IRMOS related technologies (real-time applications, cloud computing ). Different videos related to IRMOS, including a promotional video and several demo videos, are accessible through the IRMOS Channel in YouTube, at http://www.youtube.com/user/irmosproject. Join the IRMOS Group in LinkedIn! (http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostpopular=&gid=2099046) We have enjoyed informing you during these three years! Keep in touch! IRMOS Newsletter Issue N 2 8