Educational virtual clusters for on-demand MPI/Hadoop/Condor in FutureGrid

Abstract

FutureGrid provides unique capabilities that enable researchers to deploy customized environments for their experiments in grid and cloud computing, and educators to deploy customized virtual private clusters for hands-on activities. A key enabling technology for this is virtualization and the provisioning of Infrastructure-asa-Service (IaaS) through cloud computing middleware. This extended abstract describes educational virtual appliances that are automatically self-configured to enable on-demand deployment of three popular distributed/cloud computing stacks (Condor, MPI, and Hadoop) within and/or across FutureGrid sites.