Post on 10-Mar-2018
a service in evolution
The ~okeanos public cloud
Vangelis Floros
CloudScape VI, 24-25 Feb 2014, Brussels
GRNET is...
The Greek research and technology network -Greek NREN
Academic Network provider and more...
also major national e-Infrastuctureprovider
✦Grids - Member of EGI
✦Supercomputers - Member of PRACE
✦Cloud computing - ~okeanos IaaS cloud
Government funded - Public cloud service targeting the Greek research and academic community
Based on in-house IaaS cloud software (Synnefo)
Layered, modular architecture
Support for standard APIs - mostly OpenStack compliant
Open source (Apache 2 license)
Currently running in production Beta
~ o k e a n o s G LO B A L
• Open access to all GÉANT users
through eduGAIN AAI service
• Collaboration with GÉANT GN3 -
SA7 “Support for Clouds”
• Blueprint for other NRENs to follow
EGI federated cloud TF
• Testbed integration - Focus on interoperability issues
• Support for additional APIs: OCCI, VOMS…
CDMI expected.
• Contribution with compute and storageresources
Automatic, Multi-Grained elasticity-provisioning for the cloud
CELAR is developing a fully automated and highly customizable system for elasticprovisioning of resources in cloud computing platforms.~okeanos is one of the two enabling platforms for elastic resource provisioning (the second provided by Flexiant)
Budget: €3.47 Μ (FP7-GA-#317790)
Duration: 36 months; Started: October 2012Project coordinator
ATHENA Research and Innovation Centre in ICKTWebsite: http://celarcloud.eu
First year review successfully passed. Currently developing core architecture, services and components.
UberCloud HPC experiment
“Using Cloud Computing to perform Molecular Dynamics simulations of the mutant PI3Kα protein”
Team 61Mentor
Wolfgang Gentzsch, HPC experiment
Team Expert
Dominique Dehareng, Center for Protein Engineering, University of Liège
Resource Provider: GRNET - Okeanos IaaS Cloud service
Vangelis Floros, Stefanos Gerangelos, Greek Research and Technology Network
S.A. (GRNET)
Software Provider
Al Wegener, CTO, Samplify - APAX compression software
End-User
Zoe Cournia, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens
gromacs performance on ~okeanos VMs
http://www.theubercloud.com/life-sciences/
• Green DC in Louros riverContainer-based datacenter. Innovative cooling solution (uses water from the river for IT cooling)Disaster recovery of main DC
• Main DC expansion• Procurement of additional hardware+ more supported architectures
More information
http://okeanos.grnet.gr
CELAR demo today @ 13:30
http://www.synnefo.org
http://www.grnet.gr
http://okeanos-global.grnet.gr