OpenStack | Psyops Prime https://psyopsprime.com An Idea Log Wed, 28 Oct 2015 05:04:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ 99640787 Evolving Operating Systems https://psyopsprime.com/education/evolving-operating-systems/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=evolving-operating-systems https://psyopsprime.com/education/evolving-operating-systems/#respond Fri, 16 Oct 2015 17:54:21 +0000 http://psyopsprime.xyz/?p=996 I attended EuroGP in Valencia in 2007. At one point, the program committee wondered about the possibilities that could be realized through evolutionary algorithms at

The post Evolving Operating Systems first appeared on Psyops Prime.]]> I attended EuroGP in Valencia in 2007. At one point, the program committee wondered about the possibilities that could be realized through evolutionary algorithms at some point in time in the future. One of the ideas that came forward was that there may come a point in time where evolutionary algorithms could begin evolving whole operating systems.

I contemplated a little on this idea today as I was asked by a couple of friends for ideas to work in cloud computing. So some of the ideas I gave in light of the memories I had from EuroGP are in order.

Evolutionary algorithms, and other machine learning algorithms, could be used to evolve (or improve) cloud operating systems, or parts of them. Implementation details aside, an evolutionary algorithm could silently monitor the user experience of a cloud operating system. One such operating system is OpenStack. Based on the feedback obtained by the monitors, the evolutionary algorithm could then update its future generations of solutions to those problems. The newer generations of solutions could be used as improvements to the existing solutions in the operating system.

For experimental purposes, evolutionary algorithms could be used to solve miniature problems that affect the user experience. As it may be envisioned, a lot of things add to the user experience of a complicated operating system for cloud computing. There is the graphical user interface that a user uses to interact and work with a computer or a cluster. Then there are parts of the kernel that should supposedly make the computing efficient and directly or indirectly affect the user experience.

A researcher could take one issue at a time. Let it be the graphical user interface, or a program that manages it. In the case of Ubuntu systems, it could be the unity desktop. Monitors could be embedded in a usability matrix which could keep track of various aspects of level of satisfaction of the user with the interface. Such monitors can then send data back to an evolutionary algorithm to update its state. Iteratively, the evolutionary algorithm can adapt and improve parts of the user interface (or unity desktop). Over multiple generations, and based on the feedback obtained from experience of many users, it can be hoped to improve the unity engine to great extent. Same can be done with other parts of the OS.

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The post Evolving Operating Systems first appeared on Psyops Prime.]]> https://psyopsprime.com/education/evolving-operating-systems/feed/ 0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ 996 Difference Between Cloud and Virtualization https://psyopsprime.com/computer-networks/the-difference-between-cloud-and-virtualization/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-difference-between-cloud-and-virtualization https://psyopsprime.com/computer-networks/the-difference-between-cloud-and-virtualization/#respond Mon, 21 Sep 2015 14:53:51 +0000 http://psyopsprime.xyz/?p=962 For the last few months, I have been mentally pre-occupied with cloud computing. I have been trying to understand the OpenStack operating system and its

The post Difference Between Cloud and Virtualization first appeared on Psyops Prime.]]> For the last few months, I have been mentally pre-occupied with cloud computing. I have been trying to understand the OpenStack operating system and its various parts; what do they do and how they work together? Recently, I was mentioned the need to carry out some sort of virtualization for deploying the OpenStack cloud. I was kind of confused by the sneaking in of virtualization in the cloud. To be honest, I did not have a clear idea of what virtualization is all about. Upon contemplating more, I reached a conclusion that the OpenStack should somehow not rely on virtualization. The basis for my idea is that since OpenStack is a completely independent operating system that can be deployed on huge clusters of disparate machines, it should simply not rely on virtualization. What is virtualization by the way? Virtualization is a way to mimic the hardware of a typical computer so as to install different applications on top of it. Basically, it is meant to install different guest operating systems on a machine that is already running a host operating system.

Cloud computing should be totally different in my point of view, and indeed it is. A cloud OS installs itself on multiple machines and the interconnections between the machines come through the various components of the OS. OpenStack literally works like this. It has Nova to get all the networking done between machines so as to deliver a distributed computing environment to the user. The user is oblivious of how things are being stored, computed and communicated on the cluster. It uses each machine on the cluster to carry out the tasks at hand. And you can install a virtual machine on top of the cloud to achieve virtualization in the cloud, so as to be able to run various OSs on the same cloud. The last part is my own understanding, but I can bet a fortune on this idea.

Here is a very nice tutorial about how virtualization and cloud computing are different. And here is a very nice tutorial on deploying OpenStack in some easy ways in your enterprise. Enjoy your cloud.

After having established concepts that OpenStack is different from a virtual machine, it would be nice to talk about Hypervisors a little bit. A hypervisor is a virtual machine manager. It allows multiple virtual machines to run over your host OS, and manages how they’d be run. That OpenStack is actually a Hypervisor is also a myth. The question whether OpenStack would require a Hypervisor is well addressed through the following presentation.

Useful Links:

Here is a list of useful links about OpenStack.

More links are as follows:

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The following article presents some nice ideas, although I believe that some of them are a bit outdated.

http://blogs.cisco.com/smallbusiness/cloud-computing-vs-virtualization-the-differences-and-benefits

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