Category: projects

Department of Mathematics of the University of Padua At the Department of Mathematics, the people I work with are interested in containerization applied to the experimentation and evaluation of microservices architectures, as well as dynamic orchestration solutions. On the first front, at CloudVeneto, we have generally found the environment and technological tools of the OpenStack ecosystem to be adequate and sufficient. On the second front, we are still taking our first steps, but we will soon need to compare different state-of-the-art orchestration solutions and subject them to various load scenarios to evaluate their effectiveness in programming rules and actions for elastic reconfiguration. Prof. Tullio Vardanega

Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Padua At the moment, we are using virtual machines to conduct systematic Monte Carlo simulations dedicated to the study of materials for applications in the field of photonics. The simulations aim to reproduce charge transport in lithium niobate while varying the concentration of defects in the material, temperature, and other microscopic parameters. These simulations require between one and two weeks of computation as a large statistic is necessary to obtain good results. For us, the most important functionality at the moment is the ability to run a simulation with a different parameter configuration on each virtual machine in order to minimize the time for this study. Dott. Laura Vittadello, Dott. Marco Bazzan  

Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padua The SIGNET group of the Department of Information Engineering uses the CloudVeneto platform to carry out simulations of complex networks. In particular, one project involves testing underwater communication protocols through the transmission of acoustic and optical waves. The platform allows running multiple instances of the ns2-miracle simulator, which has been implemented with a module (DESERT Underwater) enabling the reproduction of the effects of acoustic and optical signal propagation in an underwater environment. The complexity of the model requires significant computational and memory resources that can be allocated on demand within the CloudVeneto platform. A second project involves simulating protocols for millimeter-wave (mmWave) radio communications, operating at extremely high frequencies (GHz). In this case, the opportunity to integrate the ns-3 network simulator with some protocols available for the Linux operating system, but not yet implemented in ns-3 (for example, some recent versions of TCP), has been exploited. Thanks to the computational resources available on CloudVeneto, it was possible to increase the realism and complexity of the simulated scenarios. The most appreciated aspect is the autonomous management of virtual machines. Dott. Andrea Zanella