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Open Cirrus Cloud Computing Testbed

Open Cirrus is an open cloud-computing research testbed designed to support research into design, provisioning, and management of services at a global, multi-datacenter scale.

The open nature of the testbed is designed to encourage research into all aspects of service and datacenter management. In addition, they hope to foster a collaborative community around the testbed, providing ways to share tools, lessons and best practices, and ways to benchmark and compare alternative approaches to service management at datacenter scale.

There are a number of important and useful testbeds, such as PlanetLab, EmuLab, IBM/Google cluster, and Amazon EC2/S3, that enable researchers to study different aspects of distrubuted computing. However, no single testbed supports research spanning systems, applications, services, open-source development, and datacenters. Towards this end, we have developed Open Cirrus, a cloud computing testbed for the research community that federates heterogeneous distributed data centers. Open Cirrus offers a cloud stack consisting of physical and virtual machines, and global services such as sign-on, monitoring, storage, and job submission. By developing the testbed and making it available to the research community, we hope to help spur innovation in cloud computing and catalyze the development of an open source stack for the cloud.

The Open Cirrus testbed is a collection of federated datacenters for open-source systems and services research. The testbed is composed of nine sites in North America, Europe, and Asia. Each site consists of a cluster with at least 1000 cores and associated storage. Authorized users can access any Open Cirrus site using the same login credentials.

The Open Cirrus project aims to provide systems researchers with a testbed of distributed data centers they can use for systems-level (as well as applications and services) cloud computing research. Open Cirrus aims to achieve the following goals:

  • Foster system-level Research in Cloud Computing
  • Encourage New Cloud Computing Applications and Applications-Level Research
  • Collection of Experimental Datasets
  • Develop Open-Source Stacks and APIs for the Cloud

Open Cirrus is a trademark of Yahoo Inc and the project is a joint initiative sponsored by HP, Intel, and Yahoo, in collaboration with NSF, the University of Illinois (UIUC), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) of Singapore, the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI ), the Malaysian Institute for Microelectronic Systems (MIMOS ), and the Institute for System Programming at the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISPRAS).

Additional Open Cirrus site members are expected to join.

Testbed Sites

Open Cirrus is a collaboration of several organizations:

For more information on The Open Cirrus Cloud Computing Testbed, please visit www.opencirrus.org.






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