Open Cloud Consortium

OCC Cloud Resources

rlg — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:57:38 +0000

This is an update about some of the cloud computing resources that are managed by the Open Cloud Consortium:

The Open Science Data Cloud (OSDC) currently consists of six racks containing 159 nodes, 1248 cores and 1.2 PB of usable storage. This is divided into a utility cloud called OSDC-Adler that is based upon Eucalyptus and a utility cloud called OSDC-Sullivan that is based upon OpenStack. This equipment was provided by a grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (GBMF). The OSDC is being rolled out over three years and this is the Phase 1a infrastructure. The Phase 1b infrastructure will be added in 2012 and will be approximately the same size.

The OCC-Y Cluster consists of 4 racks, 928 cores and 1 PB of storage and is a data cloud based upon the Hadoop.

The OCC Open Cloud Testbed has approximately 1 rack of equipment at three different locations (Chicago, Livermore and Miami) that can be used for experimental studies and testing of cloud computing software and services.

If you have a project that would like to use the OSDC-Adler, OSDC-Sullivan or OCC-Y facilities, please write us at info at opencloudconsortium dot org.

OSDC Console, Status and Accounting

rlg — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 02:25:02 +0000

We recently completed the beta version of an OSDC Console that provides an alternative to a command line interface when working with the virtual machines on the OSDC. You can see it at console.opensciencedatacloud.org.

We also recently completed a health and status monitoring and accounting system. We can now monitor the health and status of the OSDC and we will be making this information available on a status page. We can now also more easily track per user usage.

Nominate Your Favorite Data Set to Add to the OSDC

rlg — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 01:34:07 +0000

We will be adding approximately 1 PB of scientific data to the Open Science Data Cloud over the next few months. If you have a dataset that you would to see in the Open Science Data Cloud, please write us at info at opencloudconsortium dot org.

This data will be accessible to the public and will also be easily available to those computing with the OSDC.

If you would like to donate some additional disk so that we can make more data publicly available or help us with the administration of the OSDC, please contact us at info at opencloudconsortium dot org.