Department of Energy National Laboratories and Plants Leadership in Cloud Computing Prepared by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), a national laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy; NREL is operated by the Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC. JJJTABLE OF CONTENTS U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY NEVADA NATIONAL SECURITY SITE ........................................34 LABORATORIES AND PLANTS ......................................................4 Current State ...............................................................................34 Cloud Vision .................................................................................34 ABOUT THIS REPORT .....................................................................8 Key Initiatives ..............................................................................34 History of Computing ...............................................................9 Evolution of Computing Models ...........................................9 OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY ....................................36 What is Cloud Computing? ....................................................9 Current State and Future Work ............................................36 Cloud Security .............................................................................10 RightPath – DOE/NNSA Cloud Strategy ...........................11 PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY ..............38 Vision ..............................................................................................38 THE AMES LABORATORY ................................................................14 Current State ...............................................................................38 Vision .............................................................................................14 Key Initiatives ..............................................................................39 Key Initiatives ..............................................................................14 PANTEX ..................................................................................................41 ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY ......................................16 Current State ...............................................................................41 Approach ......................................................................................16 Cloud Computing Vision .........................................................41 Key Initiatives ..............................................................................16 Key Initiatives ..............................................................................41 BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY .............................17 PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY ...................42 Unique Challenges of SaaS ....................................................17 Current State ...............................................................................42 Infrastructure Proof of Concept............................................17 Moving Forward .........................................................................42 FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY .............19 SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES .......................................43 Strategy .........................................................................................19 Current State: Why Cloud? ....................................................43 Implementation ..........................................................................19 Vision: Cloud-of-Clouds ..........................................................43 FermiCloud ...................................................................................20 Key Initiatives: Cloud Roadmap............................................44 Enterprise SaaS ..........................................................................20 Virtualization Services ..............................................................21 SAVANNAH RIVER SITE/SAVANNAH RIVER NATIONAL VDI...................................................................................................21 LABORATORY ....................................................................................45 Current State ...............................................................................45 IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY ..............................................22 Moving Forward .........................................................................45 History ............................................................................................22 Key Initiatives ..............................................................................23 THOMAS JEFFERSON NATIONAL ACCELERATOR FACILITY .................................................................46 LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY ...........24 Cloud Foundations ....................................................................24 SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY ................47 Cloud Portfolio ............................................................................24 Mission and Vision .....................................................................47 Next Steps ....................................................................................25 Current State of Virtualization and Cloud Leadership in Cloud ..................................................................25 Solutions at SLAC ......................................................................47 Cloud Computing Vision .........................................................48 LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY ...........26 Current State ...............................................................................26 Y-12 NATIONAL SECURITY COMPLEX ......................................49 Cloud Computing Vision .........................................................26 Current State ...............................................................................49 Key Initiatives ..............................................................................26 Cloud Computing Vision .........................................................49 Key Initiatives ..............................................................................49 LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY .................................28 Current State ...............................................................................28 CLOUD COMPUTING Storage ..........................................................................................29 KEY TAKEAWAYS ...............................................................................51 Cloud Computing Attributes .................................................29 Conclusion ....................................................................................51 Security .........................................................................................29 ACRONYMS ..........................................................................................52 Results ...........................................................................................29 Cloud Computing Vision .........................................................30 REFERENCES .......................................................................................53 Key Initiatives ..............................................................................30 NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY ..............31 Current State ...............................................................................31 Cloud Computing Vision .........................................................31 Key Initiatives ..............................................................................32 3 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY LABORATORIES ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne) seeks solutions to AND PLANTS pressing national problems in science and technology. The nation’s first national laboratory, Argonne is one of the U.S. Department of Energy’s largest national laboratories for The 22 U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national scientific and engineering research. Argonne’s mission is laboratories and plants that comprise the nation’s federal to apply a unique mix of world-class science, engineering, scientific research and defense systems provide strategic and user facilities to deliver innovative research and scientific and technological capabilities. Their collective technologies. Argonne’s programmatic activities cover all goal is to meet the nation’s challenges and priorities in these aspects of the innovation ecology: basic research, technology areas, which often reach beyond the scope of academia and development, and prototype development and testing. private industry; and also to ensure that our government has Argonne regularly works with industry to transfer their access to these crosscutting discoveries and innovations.1 innovative work to the marketplace. The following are brief overviews of the missions of each Paul Domagala, Argonne National Laboratory • 9700 S. Cass entity and the Information Technology (IT) professionals Avenue • Argonne, IL 60439 • Phone: 630-252-5197 who contributed to this report. Email: [email protected] • Web: http://www.anl.gov/ Special thanks to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, including Chuck Powers, Matt Fish, Joelynn BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL Schroeder, and Kakie Walker. LABO RATORY Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) was established AMES LABORATORY in 1947. It is a multiprogram lab conducting research in