Projects Software Cluster SCC participates in the Software Cluster1 projects EMERGENT and InDiNet, sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The concept of “Emergent Software” plays a signifi cant role when addressing future enterprise software so- lutions. Computing at SCC -

B2B in the Cloud Novel services in The THESEUS project2, funded by the Federal Ministry of Eco- innovative research fi elds nomics and Technology, addresses the on-demand creation of B2B integration services. The service allows end users to speci- fy their desired B2B partners/endpoints and then automatically creates and confi gures the needed servers and software.

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This trusted cloud project3 intends to create a new type of mar- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) ketplace for peer-to-peer power trading. This will, for example, Steinbuch Centre for Computing (SCC) distribute sensor and power data for reliable value-added ser- STEINBUCH CENTRE FOR COMPUTING (SCC) vices, enabling it to be used for purposes such as improving Dr. Marcel Kunze building service value networks. Head of the Research Group

OpenCirrus Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1 D-76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen OpenCirrus4 is an international cloud computing testbed to support systems research, sponsored by HP, Intel and Yahoo! Phone: +49 721 608 - 25637 Fax: +49 721 608 - 24972 E-Mail: [email protected]

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Editorial team: Ursula Scheller Layout: John Atkinson 1 www.software-cluster.com 2 theseus-programm.de/b2b-in-the-cloud May 2011 3 www.trusted-cloud.de 4 www.opencirrus.org www.kit.edu KIT – University of Baden-Wuerttemberg and National Research Center of the Helmholtz Association www.kit.edu Research Group Cloud Computing HPC Hadoop as a Service Flexible and scalable HPC Systems Large Scale Data Analysis Building on compute and storage virtualization, and lever- aging the modern web, cloud computing provides scalable, High Performance Computing as a Service (HPCaaS) provides Hadoop is an open source software platform, which al- network-centric, abstracted IT infrastructures, platforms, high performance compute resources on-demand over the In- lows to easily store, process and analyze very large data and applications as on-demand services that are billed by ternet. The service is benefi cial not only for end-users but as sets in a commodity cluster. Hadoop can for example be consumption. The Research Group Cloud Computing at well for companies and organizations wishing to offer fl exible used to solve tasks like Web indexing, data mining, log SCC performs research and technological development computing environments. Using a self-service Web portal, the fi le analyses, machine learning, fi nance analyses, scientifi c with the mission to spur novel services in innovative re- provisioning of resources takes minutes rather than months. simulations, or research in the bioinformatics fi eld. The search fi elds, such as for example High Performance Com- Research Group Cloud Computing develops and offers in- puting as a Service. HPCaaS dynamically sizes computing environments appropri- novative Hadoop services to support the activities of the ate for each individual workload, speeding up the execution Large Scale Data Facility at SCC. For this purpose a Hadoop Everything as a Service of time-critical tasks. An important actual topic of research cluster with 2 name nodes HP DL360 and 58 data nodes concerns the integration of special technologies like GPUs and HP DL370h with currently some 128 TB disk space has Infrastructure, Platform, Software Infi niBand based high performance interconnects into cloud been set up. There is an option to dynamically upgrade the The cloud offerings are delivered as infrastructure, platform architectures. disk space to a Petabyte upon actual need using the latest or software services. Special services for high performance generation of large and cheap SATA disks. computing, visualization as well as simulation and optimiza- tion could be created. SCC develops its own in-house clouds OpenNebula as infrastructure services (IaaS) and architectural concepts to In order to enhance the cluster functionality, OpenNebula build and optimize new cloud applications based on cloud Node VMM has been concurrently installed with Hadoop. OpenNebula platforms (PaaS). Products such as the cloud management is an open source toolkit to manage Infrastructure as a service KOALA1 developed at SCC are widely known. Of Network VMM Service (IaaS) environments. The product supports private, special interest are solutions to deliver scientifi c software as public and hybrid clouds in a modular way and provides a service in the cloud (SaaS). interfaces to both, the OGF OCCI standard and Amazon Elastic compute Cloud (EC2). Cloud Management as a Service With the OpenNebula based cloud platform, the Research Federation of hybrid Cloud Resources Group Cloud Computing is able to provide a sophisticated, KOALA (Karlsruhe Open Application (for) cLoud Administra- easy to deploy and manage private cloud that fulfi lls the re- tion) is a management tool for cloud platforms realized as a Virtual Node Virtual Node Virtual Node quirements of scientifi c users regarding scalable resources software service. Public cloud services such as Amazon Web and fl exible software environments. Current applications Services (AWS) or Storage and private cloud services come for example from the areas cloud systems research, based on , and OpenNebula are currently semantic search engines, distributed complex event pro- Virtual Topology supported. KOALA itself can be installed and run either on cessing, energy research, and particle physics. the public cloud platform service or on

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