The Open Cloud Consortium (OCC) operates a wide area testbed for cloud computing called the Open Cloud Testbed. The testbed is being rolled out in phases. We are currently in Phase 2 of the roll out.
As far as we know, the Open Cloud Testbed is the only wide area cloud that utilizes wide area 10 Gb/s networks. If you know of any other such clouds, please let us know.
Diagram of the testbed.
Phase 2. Phase 2 of the Open Cloud Testbed began operations in November, 2009. In the Phase 2 expansion, the number of racks was increased to 9, the number of nodes to over 250, and the number of cores to over 1000.
We are currently in the process of adding additional sites to the testbed.
Phase 1. Phase 1 began operations in June 2008 and contained 240 cores distributed across four cities in the U.S. This was upgraded in September, 2008 to 480 cores.
The Phase 1 equipment consisted of four racks. Each rack contained 30 nodes. Each node had 4 cores. The racks are located in:
- University of Illinois at Chicago (Chicago)
- StarLight (Chicago)
- Calit2 (La Jolla)
- Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore)
All the racks are connected by a wide area 10 Gb/s network.