Cloud Computing

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The following entries describe cloud computing technologies relevant to SCEC research computing.

Amazon EC2

Cloud Deployment Tools

  • Chef
  • Puppet
  • Docker
  • OpenStack

Cloud Computing Definition

According to the NIST, true cloud computing has 5 well-defined characteristics:

  1. on-demand self-service
  2. broad network access
  3. resource pooling
  4. rapid elasticity
  5. measured service

Cloud Computing Software Stack

SCEC cloud computing depends on a host OS of CentOS with KVM Hypervisor, and CentOS guest operating system.

Openstack-hypervisor-os.jpg

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