BioCloud: A Framework for Efficient Biotechnology Applications Execution in Multiple Platforms of AWS Cloud
Coordinator: Alba Cristina Magalhães Alves de Melo
This research project aims to solve the problem of resource allocation and management in the Amazon AWS cloud for biotechnology HPC applications, minimizing execution time and maximizing availability, without violating SLA agreements, in order to run applications efficiently and cost-effectively. smaller financial costs for the user. In this sense, both permanent (on demand) and transient (spot) instances will be considered, as well as multiple types of computational resources (CPU, GPU and FPGA), increasing the range of alternatives explored.
The coordinated use of these multiple instances will be managed dynamically and autonomously. In this sense, the use of intelligent agents to assist in elasticity decisions (both horizontal and vertical) will be investigated. In terms of the public cloud computing model, in addition to the use of virtual machines only, the feasibility of using containers within instances will be studied in comparison with implementations using the container and Kubernetes services already offered by AWS itself and the concept of serverless computing with AWS Fargate versus AWS Lambda. However, the different approaches, technologies, and instances will be “hidden” from the end user through a scientific gateway (web portal) with a workflow manager harnessing the necessary cloud resources.
Team
Universidade de Brasília (UnB)
Alba Cristina Magalhães Alves de Melo
Célia Ghedini Ralha
Maria Emília Machado Telles Walter
Aldo Henrique Dias Mendes
Carlos Antônio Campos Jorge
Eduardo Scartezini Correia Carvalho
Gustavo Jardim Portella
Helena Schubert da Incarnação Lima da Silva
Marco Antonio Caldas de Figueirêdo Júnior
Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF)
Eugene Francis Vinod Rebello
Lúcia Maria de Assumpção Drummond
Maria Cristina Silva Boeres
Alan Lira Nunes
André Fernandes Gonçalves
Gustavo Muller Moreira
Luan Teylo Gouveia Lima
Mario João Junior
Pablo Moreira Cavalcante de Carvalho
Rafaela Correia Brum
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)
Alexandre da Costa Sena
Cristiana Barbosa Bentes
Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (EMBRAPA)
