Open Cirrus SW components:
Layer4: Application Service – Hadoop
Layer3: Virtual Machine Allocation – Tashi / Eucalyptus
Layer2: Cluster Storage DFS – HDFS
Layer1: Physical Machine Allocation – Zoni
Detail components:
- Tashi
- VM instantiation service exp: MPI jobs
- Seamless Physical / Virtual migration
- Location-aware co-scheduling of compute, storage, and power
- Zoni
- Used to allocate nodes for special purpose exp:Power management projects
- Allocate sets of physical co-located nodes, isolated inside VLANs – Layer 2 Switch
- HDFS
- High-performance, parallel access
- High data reliability through replication
- Maui/Torque – Job submission service
- Hi-Spade: A hierarchy-savvy approach to algorithm design and systems for these emerging memory hierarchies
- Hypervisor: qemu / kvm
Reference:
Open Cirrus: https://opencirrus.org/
Hi-Spade: http://www.pittsburgh.intel-research.net/projects/hi-spade/

