On Aug 30, 2012, at 10:25 AM, Thilina Gunarathne <cset...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Milinda, > Thanks for your hard work and congratulations on successfully completing > your GSoc project. Hope you enjoyed working with the Airavata community . > You did a great job and it was a breeze to mentor you. We really appreciate > your contributions to Airavata and hope you'll stick around with our > project. Your expertise and new perspectives will help us a lot with the > future developments. > > Please help us with getting the features you developed in to the next > Airavata release and in documenting them. Also it would be great if you can > add few samples/test cases as you suggested. > > BTW all the successful GSoc'ers should throw (at least a virtual) a party > ;-).. Yep, a google hangout and DYOB - /s/Bring/Drink in BYOB :) Suresh > > thanks, > Thilina > > On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Milinda Pathirage < > milinda.pathir...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Suresh, >> >> I'll add this to Airavata wiki along with developer documentation. >> >> Thanks >> Milinda >> >> On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Suresh Marru <sma...@apache.org> wrote: >> >>> Hi Milinda, >>> >>> Thanks for the great work, this is one project I can see the Airavata end >>> users will benefit significantly in the near future. Can you please blog >>> the summary and provide a link so we can add it to Airavata and other >>> comdev experience pages? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Suresh >>> On Aug 22, 2012, at 1:42 PM, Milinda Pathirage < >>> milinda.pathir...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> GSOC 2012 is finished and I’m proud to work with Airavata community >> this >>>> summer. Thank you Thilina and Suresh for all the guidance and all >> others >>>> for all the help and feedback given. Below is the final status update >> for >>>> GSOC. >>>> >>>> Initial idea was to implement cloud bursting support for Hadoop based >> on >>>> Apache Whirr and plan was to implement this as a GFac provider which >> is a >>>> way of extending GFac to support new types of execution >>> methods/platforms. >>>> While working through the project, we figure out that current GFac >>>> architecture has certain limitation which makes implementing cloud >>> bursting >>>> support complex and inflexible. So we decided to change the >> architecture >>> of >>>> GFac to suit these requirements. >>>> >>>> As a result of this decision, I created a new branch of GFac core >> module >>>> and schema module in apache extras and did all the refactorings their. >> As >>>> of 20th August I am done with all the basic refactoring required to >> write >>>> GFac providers and handlers and implemented Hadoop provider and several >>>> handlers required by Hadoop providers. Lahiru helped me by migrating >>>> existing providers to new architecture by migrating Local provider and >>> Gram >>>> provider. But to merge new GFac core and schema modules we need to >> finish >>>> migrating SSH provider and EC2 provider to new architecture. Once we >> are >>>> done with that we can merge new GFac core with the trunk. >>>> >>>> Following are the things we need to do before merging this to trunk: >>>> >>>> - Migrate SSH and EC2 providers(I’ll send a separate mail regarding >>> this.) >>>> - Implement several test cases to demonstrate each and every providers. >>>> - Write documentation on new GFac architecture and how to extend GFac >> to >>>> support new platforms. >>>> >>>> I’ll continue working on GFac improvements even though GSOC is finished >>> and >>>> really appreciate your feedback. >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> Milinda >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Milinda Pathirage >>>> PhD Student Indiana University, Bloomington; >>>> E-mail: milinda.pathir...@gmail.com >>>> Web: http://mpathirage.com >>>> Blog: http://blog.mpathirage.com >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Milinda Pathirage >> PhD Student Indiana University, Bloomington; >> E-mail: milinda.pathir...@gmail.com >> Web: http://mpathirage.com >> Blog: http://blog.mpathirage.com >> > > > > -- > https://www.cs.indiana.edu/~tgunarat/ > http://www.linkedin.com/in/thilina > http://thilina.gunarathne.org
