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OpenScienceGrid

Robert Grossman & Heidi Alvarez, Open Cloud Consortium

Nasa (ESG), Bio (Bionimbus), Astronomie

on volunteer basis

not-for-profit corporation
manages cloud computing testbads

Members: Cisco, Yahoo!, Citrix, Univ of Chicago, ORNL, NASA, AIST (Japan)

Ten year plan:
  • Proof of concept: 2008-2010
  • Phase 1 2011-2014, 1 Mio/year hw/year, 6+ location, 100G networks
  • Phase 2 2015-2020: small data center

help people in the middle: scient. with laptop, Open Sc. data cloud, high en. pyhsics

interop. with public clouds, open, interop. architecture

science clouds are different

have own satellite from NASA .. :-)

flood detection in Namibia

Bionimbus.org

OSCE PIRE Project: Training (Students-learn data intensive science)

participate: nominate one of your graduate students to spend a summer working wieht one of the OSDC PIRE Foreign Partners
submit dataset to the OSDC DAta Challenge
...

OCC-Y Cluster 4 rack Hadoop clusters

sustainability model: hw: 1M/year, op. exp. $1M/ year
moore foundation: 1M/year

capacity plan: 2012: 4PByte, 2013: 10, 2014: 20: 2015: 25PB

why:
  • companies may not be here tomorrow
  • government agencies.. :-)
  • simplest infra with minimum of money, keep data around and accessible

www.opencloudconsortium.org

Tech: eucalytus, openstack, hadoop, yahoop ..

1 PByte upload of new interesting data in near time, what this inter. data is ? :-)

Edinburg: question, national data centers: replicate data, indexing
long term arch.: simple and complex part, keeping bits around - simple, content - complex

PIRE & OSDC
student/faculty/scientific research teams help develop large-scale distributed ..
state of the art services for integrating, analyzing, sharing and archiving scientific data
train a generation on IT-scientists

international: malcolm atkinson, Edinburgh; brazil ..

openscientdatacloud.org/?page_id=164