Title  

Cloud Resource Orchestration: State of the art and Research Challenges
rends and Challenges

 Speaker 

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Dr. Rajiv Ranjan ,
Research Scientist and Project Leader, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia

Dr. Rajiv Ranjan is a Research Scientist and Project Leader in the CSIRO ICT Center, Information Engineering Laboratory, Canberra, where he is working on projects related to cloud and service computing. Previously, he was a Senior Research Associate (Lecturer level B) in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW). Dr. Ranjan has a PhD (2009) in Computer Science and Software Engineering from the University of Melbourne. He completed Bachelor of Computer Engineering from North Gujarat University, India, in 2002. Dr. Ranjan is broadly interested in the emerging areas of cloud, grid, and service computing. The main goal of his current research is to advance the fundamental understanding and state of the art of provisioning and delivery of application services in large, heterogeneous, uncertain, and evolving distributed systems(cloud, grids, data center, and web services).

Though a recent graduate, his h-index is 15, with a total citation count of 770+ (source: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Y_Y3fVEAAAAJ&hl=en). Dr. Ranjan has often served as Guest Editor for leading distributed systems and software engineering journals including Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier Press), Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (John Wiley & Sons), and Software: Practice and Experience (Wiley InterScience). He was the Program Chair for 2010, 2011, and 2012 Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing and 2010 IEEE TCSC Doctoral Symposium. He serves as the editor of IEEE TCSC Newsletter. He has also recently initiated (as chair) IEEE TCSC Technical area on Cloud Computing.

A journal paper that appeared in the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorial Journal (impact factor 3.692 and the 5-year impact factor is 8.462) was named “Outstanding Paper on New Communications Topics for 2009” by IEEE Communications Society, USA. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorial is ranked as no # 1 journal (among other journals including IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Communications, etc.) in the field of communications based on the last five years impact factor.

Though his PhD was awarded only two years ago, already the quality of work undertaken as part of that degree and his subsequent post-doctoral research undertaken at the University of Melbourne and UNSW has been recognised, often cited, and adopted by both industry and academia. For example, the Alchemi toolkit http://www.cloudbus.org/~alchemi/projects.html) is used by CSIRO Physics, Biology, and Natural Sciences researchers as a platform for solving critical problems; by e-Water CRC to create environment simulation models for natural resource modelling; and by the Friedrich Miescher Institute (FMI), Switzerland; Tier Technologies, USA; Satyam Computers, India; and Correlation Systems Ltd., Israel. CloudSim (http://www.cloudbus.org/cloudsim/) is used extensively by Hewlett-Packard Labs Texas A&M University, and Duke University in USA; and Tsingua University in China and to study and evaluate performance measurements of Cloud resources and application management techniques.

 Abstract

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The emergence of cloud computing over the past five years is potentially one of the breakthrough advances in the history of computing. It delivers hardware and software resources as virtualization-enabled services and in which administrators are free from the burden of worrying about the low level implementation or system administration details. Although cloud computing offers considerable opportunities for the users (e.g. application developers, governments, new startups, administrators, consultants, scientists, business analyst, etc.) such as no up-front investment, lowering operating cost, and infinite scalability, it has many unique research challenges that need to be carefully addressed in the future. Key to exploiting the potential of cloud computing is the issue of Resource orchestration. Resource orchestration process spans across range of operations, from selection, assembly, and deployment of resources to monitoring their run-time performance statistics (e.g. load, availability, throughput, utilization, etc.) for ensuring consistency and adaptive management. With orchestration, the overall goal is to ensure successful hosting and delivery of applications by meeting the QoS objectives of users. QoS is composed of number of functional and non-functional attributes such as performance statistics, security assurance, reliability, renting cost, scalability, availability, legal and regulatory concerns. In this talk, we present a survey on key cloud computing concepts, resource abstractions, and state-of-the-art implementations as well as discussion on resource orchestration challenges, wherever applicable. The talk concludes with a demonstration of a cloud resource orchestration framework that simplifies the process of resource orchestration and web application management on public clouds such as Amazon EC2.