Federating Infrastructure as a Service Cloud Computing Systems to Create a Uniform E-infrastructure for Research
Federating Infrastructure as a Service Cloud Computing Systems to Create a Uniform E-infrastructure for Research
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10.1109/escience.2015.51
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2015-08
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D. Wallom;M. Turilli;M. Drescher;Diego Scardaci;S. Newhouse
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作者：
D. Wallom;M. Turilli;M. Drescher;Diego Scardaci;S. Newhouse
本文详细介绍了 EGI 联合云平台的最新技术、设计、开发和部署，这是一个为欧洲研究界提供可扩展且灵活的利用模型的电子基础设施。在继续支持传统高吞吐量计算模型的同时，EGI 云平台将其范围扩展到其他利用模型，例如长期服务和按需计算。经过两年的开发，EGI 联合云平台于 2014 年 5 月正式推出，提供由用户社区内值得信赖的学术和研究组织提供的资源，并符合其标准资助制度。从那时起，支持的用例在所需服务模型的总数和多样性上都显着增加，验证了强制云技术不可知论和通过开放标准支持服务移动性和可移植性的选择。这些设计选择还允许将商业云提供商纳入以前仅由学术机构支持的基础设施中。这有助于资助机构实现更广泛的目标，即通过支持的研究活动创造经济和社会影响。
This paper details the state of the art, the design, development and deployment of the EGI Federated Cloud platform, an e-infrastructure offering scalable and flexible models of utilization to the European research community. While continuing support for the traditional High Throughput Computing model, the EGI Cloud Platform extends its reach to other models of utilization such as long-lived services and on demand computation. Following a two-year period of development, the EGI Federated Cloud platform was officially launched in May 2014 offering resources provided by trusted academic and research organisations from within the user communities and consistently with their standard funding regime. Since then, the use cases supported have significantly increased both in total number and diversity of model of service required, validating both the choice of enforcing cloud technology agnosticism and of supporting service mobility and portability by means of open standards. These design choices have also allowed for the inclusion of commercial cloud providers into an infrastructure previously supported only by academic institutions. This contributes to a wider goal of funding agencies to create economic and social impact from supported research activities.