The Design of a Community Science Cloud: The Open Science Data Cloud Perspective

Author

Grossman, Robert L. ; Greenway, Matthew ; Heath, Allison P. ; Powell, Ray ; Suarez, Rafael D. ; Wells, Walt ; White, Kevin ; Atkinson, Malcolm ; Klampanos, Iraklis ; Alvarez, Heidi L. ; Harvey, Christine ; Mambretti, Joe J.

fYear

2012

fDate

10-16 Nov. 2012

Firstpage

1051

Lastpage

1057

Abstract

In this paper we describe the design, and implementation of the Open Science Data Cloud, or OSDC. The goal of the OSDC is to provide petabyte-scale data cloud infrastructure and related services for scientists working with large quantities of data. Currently, the OSDC consists of more than 2000 cores and 2 PB of storage distributed across four data centers connected by 10G networks. We discuss some of the lessons learned during the past three years of operation and describe the software stacks used in the OSDC. We also describe some of the research projects in biology, the earth sciences, and social sciences enabled by the OSDC.

Keywords

cloud computing; natural sciences computing; OSDC; biology; community science cloud design; data center; earth science; open science data cloud perspective; petabyte-scale data cloud infrastructure; social science; cloud computing; data intensive computing; open data; science clouds;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SCC), 2012 SC Companion:

Conference_Location

Salt Lake City, UT

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-6218-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SC.Companion.2012.127

Filename

6495909