What we do ● Run an Indian Languages Search Engine ● Research ○ Information Extraction ○ Information Retrieval ○ Information Access ○ Virtualization and Cloud ● Users of ○ OpenStack ○ Hadoop ○ and lot of other FOSS
More Problems... ● Cluster ○ Terrible Resource Utilization ○ New deployment => Too much time ○ Data Redundancy ○ Non-optimal deployments ● Academic ○ No cloud platform for experimentation ○ Large Scale sandboxed resource provisioning for students.
Storage ● Hadoop compatible distributed storage ● Glance image store ● Desktop backup utility using CloudFuse ● Data reliability ● No more Data Fragmentation
OpenStack in Academia ● Research ○ Inter cloud migration ○ Inter cloud scheduling ○ Performance Evaluation ● Resource provisioning for course assignments and projects. ○ 3 courses ○ 350+ students ○ 20+ projects