Open Cloud Consortium is the Winner of the SC 09 Bandwidth Challenge
November 19, 2009. At the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC09), a research team led by the Open Cloud Consortium won the Bandwidth Challenge for new technology to support data intensive applications over wide area clouds.
In addition to the Open Cloud Consortium, the research team included the Laboratory for Advanced Computing at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the International Center for Advanced Internet Research (iCAIR) at Northwestern University, and the Naval Research Laboratory.
The team demonstrated three applications, each showing how data intensive applications could span geographically distributed data centers given the appropriate hardware and software infrastructure. The demonstration used four data centers located in Chicago, Baltimore and San Diego and connected by wide area 10 Gbps networks provided through a partnership with the National Lambda Rail and Cisco.
One of the applications used the Open Cloud Testbed to process very large datasets over 256 servers in 4 data centers connected by wide area high performance networks. Data was exchanged at over 100Gb/s among the participating nodes. This application used a new version (version 1.24) of the open source software Sector/Sphere large data cloud, which was developed by Laboratory for Advanced Computing.