[REEF-1158] A REEF runtime for IaaS clouds

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: REEF
• Labels: GSOC gsoc2016
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Markus Weimer
• Created: 26/Jan/16 20:40
• Updated: 17/Mar/16 07:00

Description

REEF's abstraction is portable to IaaS clouds like AWS EC2, Azure VMs and the Google Cloud. We'd run each Evaluator on a VM, and the resource request / response would be forwarded to and from the IaaS cloud's API.

A rough idea of the approach would be:

• The Client gets the credentials for the IaaS account and a Driver submission. It then acquires a VM from the IaaS provider and launches the Driver on there.
• The Driver runs in a VM and launches Evaluators on that VM until it is "full". At that point (and up to a policy), it acquires an additional VM and starts launching containers there. This could, for example, be done with the SSH runtime.