Flexible Services for the Support of Research

Project Overview

Aims of the project

• Building an integrated Public-Private cloud Infrastructure

• Pilot 1, Multi Platform Software Development

• Pilot 2, On demand Research data storage service

Eucalyptus as an IaaS cloud

Eucalyptus has a highly modular internal structure, allowing for scalability of both the VM hosting nodes and their attached storage

Management components to use IaaS cloud

Install the Clouds

Eduserv

Oxford Reading

Integrate Management and Accounting

Eduserv

Oxford

eZEEL Managemen

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Reading

eZEEL Managemen

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STFC/NGS Accounting Database

Develop our Pilot case studies

Eduserv

Oxford

eZEEL Managemen

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Software Development Framework

Storage Manager

Reading

eZEEL Managemen

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Software Development Framework

Storage Manager

STFC/NGS Accounting Database

Pilot 1: Multi Platform Software Development

Multi-Platform Software Development

Instance Configuration Manager (Software Upload, OS, Libraries etc.)

Development Instance

SSHIDE

CVS/Subversion

Multi-Platform Software Development

Build Instance

1

Build Instance

2

Build Instance

3

Build Instance

4

Instance Configuration Manager (Software Upload, OS, Libraries etc.)

Build Manager

CVS/Subersion

Pilot 2: On demand Research Data Service

On demand Research Data Service

Data Management Controller (Choice of volume, Interface type

and policies on lifetime

System Walrus ServerData

Interface Type 1

Instance

Virtual Storage Volume

Data Management Controller (Choice of volume, Interface type

and policies on lifetime

System Walrus Server

System Walrus Server

Virtual Storage Volume

Data Management Controller (Choice of volume, Interface type

and policies on lifetime

System Walrus Server

System Walrus ServerData

Interface Type 1

Instance

Virtual Storage Volume

FLeSSR will…

• produce a production quality Public-Private hybrid cloud system between two leading universities and Eduserv, a trusted provide in the HEI space

• extend Eucalyptus to support open standards including OCCI, Usage Records and GLUE

• pilot two research specific use cases that can be generalised beyond their original fields