Contextualization: Providing One-Click Virtual Clusters
ESCIENCE '08 Proceedings of the 2008 Fourth IEEE International Conference on eScience
Elastic Site: Using Clouds to Elastically Extend Site Resources
CCGRID '10 Proceedings of the 2010 10th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing
Performance Analysis of High Performance Computing Applications on the Amazon Web Services Cloud
CLOUDCOM '10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Second International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science
ESCIENCE '10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Sixth International Conference on e-Science
Wrangler: virtual cluster provisioning for the cloud
Proceedings of the 20th international symposium on High performance distributed computing
Swift: A language for distributed parallel scripting
Parallel Computing
Infrastructure outsourcing in multi-cloud environment
Proceedings of the 2012 workshop on Cloud services, federation, and the 8th open cirrus summit
Designing and Deploying a Scientific Computing Cloud Platform
GRID '12 Proceedings of the 2012 ACM/IEEE 13th International Conference on Grid Computing
The parallel system for integrating impact models and sectors (pSIMS)
Proceedings of the Conference on Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment: Gateway to Discovery
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Infrastructure cloud computing introduces a significant paradigm shift that has the potential to revolutionize how scientific computing is done. However, while it is actively adopted by a number of scientific communities, it is still lacking a well-developed and mature ecosystem that will allow the scientific community to better leverage the capabilities it offers. This paper introduces a specific addition to the infrastructure cloud ecosystem: the cloudinit.d program, a tool for launching, configuring, monitoring, and repairing a set of interdependent virtual machines in an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud or over a set of IaaS clouds. The cloudinit.d program was developed in the context of the Ocean Observatory Initiative (OOI) project to help it launch and maintain complex virtual platforms provisioned on demand on top of infrastructure clouds. Like the UNIX init.d program, cloudinit.d can launch specified groups of services and the VMs in which they run, at different run levels representing dependencies of the launched VMs. Once launched, cloudinit.d monitors the health of each running service to ensure that the overall application is operating properly. If a problem is detected in a service, cloudinit.d will restart only that service and any other service that failed that depended on it.