On Jan 6, 2014, at 6:42 PM, Ignazio Cassano <ignaziocass...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, my suggestion concerns Desktop as a Service (DaaS) based on linux > kvm and Spice. > Spice protocol is opensource and could be included to expand cloudstack > features. > Ignazio That could be very interesting > > > > 2014/1/6 manas biswal <manas.biswa...@gmail.com> > >> virtual disk inter- operability , may be another area, means study >> about different disk formats that CloudStack is supporting. >> like qucow, vhd etc. >> >> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 9:14 PM, sebgoa <run...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> On Jan 6, 2014, at 5:33 AM, jitendra shelar < >> jitendra.shelar...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi All, >>>> >>>> I am pursuing with my MS at BITs, Pilani, India. >>>> I am planning of doing my final sem project in cloudstack. >>>> >>>> Can somebody please suggest me some research areas in cloudstack? >>>> >>> >>> Hi Jitendra, it depends what you mean by 'research', but there are a lot >> of interesting projects to do IMHO: >>> >>> -Integration testing: Develop the Marvin framework and write tests to >> continuously check the support for CloudStack clients (libcloud, AWS, >> jclouds etc) this would require learning jenkins, understanding continuous >> integration pipeline and finding ways to tests these clients automatically. >>> >>> -Investigating Xen GPU passthrough and setting up a demo where Xen >> hypervisors are tagged specifically for VM that need access to GPUs, run >> CUDA code on them… >>> >>> -Investigate Mesos framework and develop deployments scripts to >> automatically deploy Mesos on a CloudStack infrastructure, the end goal >> being to demo running mixed workloads (MPI, hadoop, spark) on a virtualized >> infrastructure in cloudstack >>> >>> -Docker integration/use, a few of us have been talking about this and >> you would be likely to get some help from the community. >>> >>> -Review of configuration management systems (chef, puppet, ansible, >> saltstack...) develop recipes for deploying cloudstack for all systems >> (some already exist), from source and from packages. Include management >> server and hypervisor setup. Ideally had a wrapper to link to the >> hypervisor and the mgt server together automatically using Marvin. >>> >>> -Investigate PaaS solutions and their integration with CloudStack. >> Software like cloudify, openshift, cloudfoundry, appscale…some of it is >> already done but a thorough analysis of pros and cons as well as code >> writing to finish the integration of some would be great. >>> >>> You can also check out JIRA: >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK , browse through the >> long list of 'bugs' and pick what seems interesting to you. >>> >>> This all depends of course on your skills and interest, are you more of >> a java developer or a sys admin ? Are you interested in integration with >> third party software or core java development ? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> -sebastien >>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Jitendra >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Thanks and Regards >> Manas Ranjan Biswal >> Research Scientist, >> OpenTechnology Center, >> NIC,Chennai >> 08015698191,9776349149 >> manas.bis...@nic.in >>
