This tutorial provides an overview of cloud computing followed by a detailed description of the StratusLab "Infrastructure as a Service" (IaaS) cloud distribution. The lectures cover all of the compute, network, and storage services followed by practical exercises. A section on porting applications to the cloud along with specific bioinformatics examples follows the general description of services. The tutorial concludes with a description of the StratusLab roadmap and a general discussion.
The slides and supporting materials are provided in English but will be presented in French.
Participants must bring a laptop with them to the tutorial.
Mac OSX, Linux: Ensure that you have installed python (2.6+, but not 3.x), java (1.6+), and an ssh client. For signing of virtual machine descriptions, an X509 certificate is needed.
Windows: Ensure that you have installed python (2.6+, but not 3.x), java (1.6+), and an ssh client. The StratusLab client currently does not support the signing of virtual machine descriptions on Windows.
The slides and supporting materials are provided in English but will be presented in French.
Participants must bring a laptop with them to the tutorial.
Mac OSX, Linux: Ensure that you have installed python (2.6+, but not 3.x), java (1.6+), and an ssh client. For signing of virtual machine descriptions, an X509 certificate is needed.
Windows: Ensure that you have installed python (2.6+, but not 3.x), java (1.6+), and an ssh client. The StratusLab client currently does not support the signing of virtual machine descriptions on Windows.
