A Practitioner's Experience of the Use of Cloud Computing in Control

Sekou L RemyAssistant ProfessorHuman Centered Computing

Championing learning from examples

Dots represent instances of

teaching

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Championing the use of web standards

Tools in use

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Closed loop control (stable)

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Impact of the IaaS (no network)

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Impact of the IaaS (w/ network)

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Closed loop control (unstable system)

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Closed loop control (unstable system)

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The impact of network location is real, but there are developments coming!

Client off siteClient on site

“Off-line” use of cloud computation

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Population based search for controllers

Video

Surprising pattern of failure in IaaS

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Using the package shared by researchers, but running on Openstack

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Surprising pattern of failure in IaaS

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Time to failure (h)

The ecosystem of things that can affect performance

“NULL”

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In summary…

Lots of choices!Lots of opportunity to fail/succeedWe need help from other communities

Is software defined networking (SDN) really the panacea to latency?

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Questions?