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Mariam Kiran

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arXiv2014

Experimental Report on Setting up a Cloud Computing Environment at the University of Bradford

Cloud computing is increasingly attracting large attention in computing both in academic research and in industrial initiatives. Emerging as a popular paradigm and an attractive model of providing computing, information technology (IT) infrastructure, network and storage to large and small enterprises both in private and public sectors. This project was initiated and aimed at designing and Setting up a basic Cloud lab Testbed running on Open stack under Virtual box for experiments and Hosting Cloud Platforms in the networking laboratory at the University of Bradford. This report presents the methodology of setting up a cloud lab testbed for experiment running on open stack. Current resources, in the Networking lab at the university were used and turned into virtual platforms for cloud computing testing. This report serves as a practical guideline, concentrating on the practical infrastructure related questions and issues, on setting up a cloud lab for testing and proof of concept. Finally the report proposes an experimental validation showing feasibility of migrating to cloud. The primary focus of this report is to provide a brief background on different theoretical concepts of cloud computing, particularly virtualisation, and then it elaborates on the practical aspects concerning the setup and implementation of a Cloud lab test bed using open source solutions. This reports serves as a reference for institutions looking at the possibilities of implementing cloud solutions, in order to benefit from getting the basics and a view on the different aspects of cloud migration concepts.

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arXiv2014

Using FLAME Toolkit for Agent-Based Simulation: Case Study Sugarscape Model

Social scientists have used agent-based models to understand how individuals interact and behave in various political, ecological and economic scenarios. Agent-based models are ideal for understanding such models involving interacting individuals producing emergent phenomenon. Sugarscape is one of the most famous examples of a social agent-based model which has been used to show how societies grow in the real world. This paper builds on the Sugarscape model, using the Flexible Large scale Agent-based modelling Environment (FLAME) to simulate three different scenarios of the experiment, which are based on the Sugar and Citizen locations. FLAME is an agent-based modelling framework which has previously been used to model biological and economic models. The paper includes details on how the model was written and the various parameters set for the simulation. The results of the model simulated are processed for three scenarios and analysed to see what affect the initial starting states of the agents had on the overall result obtained through the model and the variance in simulation time of processing the model on multicore architectures. The experiments highlight that there are limitations of the FLAME framework and writing simulation models in general which are highly dependent on initial starting states of a model, also raising further potential work which can be built into the Sugarscape model to study other interesting phenomenon in social and economic laws.

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