Predicting weather and climate and its impacts on the environment, including hazards such as floods and landslides, is a big challenge that can be efficiently supported by a distributed and heterogeneous infrastructure, exploiting several kinds of computational resources: HPC, Grids and Clouds. This can help researchers in speeding up experiments, improve resolution and accuracy, simulate with different numerical models and model chains. Such numerical models are complex with heavy computational requirements, huge numbers of parameters to tune, and not fully standardized interfaces. Hence, each research entity is usually focusing on a limited set of tools and hard-wired solutions to enable their interaction. The DRIHM approach is based on strong standardization, well defined interfaces, and an easy to use web interface for model configuration and experiment definition. A researcher can easily compare outputs from different hydrologic models forced by the same meteorological model, or compare different meteorological models to validate or improve her research. This paper presents the benefit of a web-based interface for hydro-meteorology research through a detailed analysis of the portal (based on liferay-gUse) developed by the DRIHM project.

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Abstract-The advent of host virtualization has increased the number of management attribute classes and instances. At the same time an additional degree of heterogeneity has been introduced, due to different hypervisor products coupled with multiple guest operating systems. These changes obviate provisionary methods of harmonising management information. We analyse the problem dimensions of attribute harmonisation according to a common management scenario and show why heterogeneity at hypervisor and VM level is difficult to deal with at present. In response, we present a classification of bottomup attribute matching patterns and propose a methodology for the systematic processing of management attributes. As a proof-of-concept, we describe our implementation of an attribute normalising framework extending the libvirt library.

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