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TeciRes : Towards Cloudy Research. Xiaoyu Chen School of Electronic and Computer Science University of Southampton xc2@ecs.soton.ac.uk. OGF 28 Munich, March 15-18, 2010. Outline. Background What is cloud computing? Cloudy Research? State- of-the-art Recommendations. Background.
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TeciRes: Towards Cloudy Research Xiaoyu Chen School of Electronic and Computer Science University of Southampton xc2@ecs.soton.ac.uk OGF 28Munich, March 15-18, 2010
Outline • Background • What is cloud computing? • Cloudy Research? • State-of-the-art • Recommendations
Background • Overview • Funded by JISC • Managed by University of Southampton • 16/11/2009 – 15/05/2010 • Technical Review of Using Cloud for Research • Associate projects • Review of Using Cloud for Research • Use Cases • Non-technical issues, in particular governance, legal and economic issues) • Review of the Environmental and Organisational Implications of Cloud Computing in Higher and Further Education • current evidence for the environmental costs and benefits of cloud computing • implications of cloud computing for institutional activities outside the research area • Project Site: http://tecires.ecs.soton.ac.uk
Background • Deliverables • JISC management documents • JISC project final report • JISC project completion report • JISC final budget report • TeciRes reports • Interim report (delivered to JISC in Feb.) • TeciRes final report (to be public accessible in the middle of May) • 2 X brief papers • Guidance to researchers for using Cloud (technical only, without economic, ethic and other issues) • Guidance to private/public/hybrid Cloud providers (mainly using open source tools building private cloud and hybrid cloud)
Our definition an emerging business model that delivers computing services over the Internet in an elasticself-serviced, self-managed, cost-effective manner with guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS).
Enabling Technologies • Virtualisation • Monitoring • Metering and accounting • Capacity planning and SLA management • Billing and reporting • Programming APIs
Towards Cloudy Research • Cloudy Research Environment • Researchers • Role: end user, CSV, CTP • HE Institutes • Role: CSP, CTP
Towards Cloudy Research • Case Study
Towards Cloudy Research • Use Case Scenario Categorisation:
Towards Cloudy Research • Use Case Scenario Categorisation:
Towards Cloudy Research • Use Case Scenario Categorisation:
The “Research Cloud” • Use Case Scenario Categorisation:
Towards Cloudy Research • Use Case Scenario Categorisation:
Towards Cloudy Research • Use Case Scenario Categorisation: UCSC 6: Shared research Tool/Service Provisioning
State-of-the-art • Commercial offerings • Amazon Web Services • IBM WebsphereCloudBurst • IBM Smart Business Cloud Development and Test • Microsoft Azure • Open Cloudware • OpenNebula • Reservior • Euclyptus