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ProActive demo and tests at ETSI Grid Plugtests

Cedric Dalmasso — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:38:49 +0000

The 1st and 2nd September 2009 held the IOP Demos of the 6th Grid Plugtests. The goal of this interoperability demonstration was to evaluate the resource reservation mechanisms and features offered by different grid and cloud computing products based on the use scenarios defined as part of the ETSI Grid Interoperability Test Specification.

INRIA presented the ProActive Parallel Suite composed of our three products: a Java middleware for distributed and parallel computing, a resource manager, and a job scheduler. Both the Java middleware and the resource manager implements the GCM Deployment ETSI standards (GCM Interoperability Deployment and GCM Interoperability Application Description).

The INRIA demoed the use of ProActive Resourcing and Scheduling on a local cluster and Amazon EC2. When the cluster is overloaded, computing nodes are dynamically gathered from Amazon EC2.
The test suite and test applications defined by the ETSI have also been implemented and successfully executed on Amazon EC2, PBS, LSF and SSH demonstrating the partial implementation of the GCM standard.

Furthermore, we contributed to the following survey presented to the participants:

User API: Java API, XML GCM DD/AD descriptors, XML Job descriptors
Data Management: Input and Output data directories can be shared between processes (remote access)
Hypervisor & resource management: Supports Xen, VMWare, KVM, Virtualbox, qemu, hyper V. Provides an unified API to manage all the supported hypervisors. Support SSH, PBS, LSF, SGE, OAR and more by using infrastructure specific CLI.
Resource reservation: Fully configurable through selection scripts. Jobs can ask to run scripts on resources to check if they fulfill their needs.
Feedback on existing standards:
- Use ETSI GCM DD/AD XML descriptors to perform static deployments
- Evaluated OGF JSDL for job submission but too many vendor specific options and does not fulfill all the needs of ProActive Programming/Resourcing
- Evaluated OVF from the DMTF. It fails to address the main issue of moving images between different hypervisor without human intervention.
- Looking for a common API for managing hypervisors. Currently, proprietary APIs must be used.

ProActive at Solution Linux, March 16-18, 2010, Paris, France

Cedric Dalmasso — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:43:20 +0000

As last year, ActiveEon will be present at the Solutions Linux conference and trade show, March 16-18, 2010, in Paris.

ProActive will be presented with 3 different talks on Thursday:

Join ActiveEon at OW2 booth. Meet ProActive developers and discover ProActive latest features!

For more information and detailed agenda see http://www.solutionslinux.fr/.

We look forward to meeting you at Solution Linux 2010.

Parallel Processing for the Enterprise March, 25-26th 2010

admin — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:40:13 +0000

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New release: ProActive Parallel Suite® 4.2.0 is available!

Cedric Dalmasso — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:26:02 +0000

ActiveEon engineers and OASIS research team are very pleased to share with you ProActive Parallel Suite® 4.2. This new version is released after a lot of tests and improvements increasing the stability of the Technology Preview version issued few weeks ago.
Community Edition can be downloaded at www.activeeon.com/community-downloads
Enterprise Edition can be downloaded at www.activeeon.com/enterprise-downloads

New features available in ProActive Parallel Suite 4.2:

ProActive Programming 4.2

Efficient File Split & Merge for a faster file processing using the dedicated API
Powerful run time annotation enabling a transparent integration of parallel aspects
Easier debugging with the integrated Java debugger and the display of DSI-DSF request tagging
Web Service exposition upgrade: available for complex type as well (Axis 2 and CXF)
Wider deployment: virtual environments are now integrated in GCM deployment mechanism

ProActive Scheduling 2.0

Easy data management and storage as each job can automatically access data files wherever they are located and whatever the protocol is to access these data
Advanced parallel services: exposure of job execution by ProActive Scheduling as a Web Service available from a BPEL process
In-depth graphical and configurable monitoring of workload management
User-friendly authentication with automated entry of login credentials

ProActive Resourcing 2.0

Powerful Virtual Machines support and integration via ProActive Resource Manager
Amazon EC2 support: extend easily your infrastructure with cloud nodes or schedule your jobs directly on Amazon EC2
Graphical monitoring of the resource manager activity
Simplified process to enable the Support of any new type of infrastructure

Get faster up to speed with ProActive 4.2 by attending ProActive trainings! Next sessions’ schedule.

Job Offers: Sales and Marketing for a Price-Winning Sophia Antipolis Startup (both high-potential Employees and Interns.)

admin — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:04:18 +0000

See details: http://www.activeeon.com/company/job-offers

ActiveEon at ETSI Grid Plugtests & Workshop, December 1-3, 2009

Cedric Dalmasso — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:24:56 +0000

ActiveEon will participate to the next Grid Plugtests & Workshop organized by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) on December 1-3, 2009.

This event intends to provide the telecommunication community with a better picture regarding state-of-the-art products in the Grid and cloud. It also aims at demonstrating resource reservation and deployment of applications onto different cluster, (grid) middleware, cloud computing infrastructures based on an ETSI TC Grid test specification. Denis Caromel Scientific Advisor of ActiveEon will present From Grid to Clouds: GCM TC Grid Standards and Genomic Sequencing.

ActiveEon will be involved in the IOP demo as well to demonstrate our implementation of the GCM standard.

More information at http://www.etsi.org/plugtests/GRID09/GRID.htm.

Supercomputing ‘09, Join ActiveEon at INRIA booth, #1405!

cdespoix — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:30:22 +0000

Meet ProActive developers and discover ProActive latest features!

We look forward to meeting you at SC ‘09

ProActive at the next Riviera Jug meeting, November 6, 2009

cdespoix — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:40:08 +0000

Distributed computing will have the place of honor this Friday, November 6, at the Riviera JUG in Sophia Antipolis, France.

Arnaud Contes, Software Architect at ActiveEon, will introduce to you Parallel Programming Principles, give an overview of ProActive Parallel Suite and highlight ProActive latest features.

Subscription is free but mandatory

We look forward to meeting you all on Friday!

Genomic Sequencing Gets Faster With ProActive Scheduler

cdespoix — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:08:51 +0000

ActiveEon is currently collaborating with a French Pharmacology institute to accelerate and scale up a genomic sequencing solution:

To develop its activity in genomics sequencing, this Pharmacology institute acquired in 2008 a next-generation sequencing platform. The volume and size of data currently generated in genomic analysis grow steadily. In parallel, algorithms to process and consolidate these data are always more complex. The need for an increased computing power is then pressing. But hardware resources are a limited and costly asset: to mutualize available hardware resources and enable a better workload management is the solution to overcome the lack in computing power. ProActive Parallel Suite has been therefore integrated in the genomic sequencing solution used by the Pharmacology institute. Integration was done very easily thanks to the flexibility of ProActive.
Tests are on going and are progressing very well.

Thanks to ProActive it is now possible to:

Aggregate all PCs available in the lab and distribute the jobs over this pool
Extend internal computing resources with Amazon EC2 nodes and efficently execute the genomic sequencing solution over all these nodes
Run the genomic sequencing solution on Amazon EC2 only

The speed up achieved on each hardware configuration is very promising.

ProActive Parallel Suite® 4.2 Preview available!

cdespoix — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:39:33 +0000

ActiveEon engineers and OASIS research team are pleased to share with you ProActive Parallel Suite® 4.2 Preview.
Community Edition can be downloaded at www.activeeon.com/community-downloads
Enterprise Edition can be downloaded at www.activeeon.com/entreprise-downloads

New features available in ProActive Parallel Suite 4.2 Preview:

ProActive Programming 4.2

Efficient File Split & Merge for a faster file processing using the dedicated API
Powerful run time annotation enabling a transparent integration of parallel aspects
Easier debugging with the integrated Java debugger and the display of DSI-DSF request tagging
Web Service exposition upgrade: available for complex type as well (Axis 2 and CXF)
Wider deployment: virtual environments are now integrated in GCM deployment mechanism

ProActive Scheduling 2.0

Easy data management and storage as each job can automatically access data files wherever they are located and whatever the protocol is to access these data
Advanced parallel services: exposure of job execution by ProActive Scheduling as a Web Service available from a BPEL process
In-depth graphical and configurable monitoring of workload management
User-friendly authentication with automated entry of login credentials

ProActive Resourcing 2.0

Powerful Virtual Machines support and integration via ProActive Resource Manager
Amazon EC2 support: extend easily your infrastructure with cloud nodes or schedule your jobs directly on Amazon EC2
Graphical monitoring of the resource manager activity
Simplified process to enable the Support of any new type of infrastructure

Get faster up to speed with ProActive 4.2 by attending ProActive trainings! Next sessions’ schedule