Cloud Computing

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

Amazon EC2

OpenStack Cloud Services

Cloud Deployment Tools


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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