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'''GridPP Cloud resources at Imperial''' <br>
 
'''GridPP Cloud resources at Imperial''' <br>
 
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All cloud resources at Imperial are funded via IRIS. Access to these resources is granted via an IRIS Resource Request. Please contact Pete Clarke at Edinburgh for further information.
A GridPP Cloud pilot service is in testing, hosted at Imperial College. The aim of the pilot is to allow members of GridPP to accrue experience running particle physics workloads using cloud technologies.  In this way the community will be better able to make decisions on possible future technology changes for its own facilities and will be in a better position to make use of resources at external cloud providers, if desired.
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'''Technical description'''
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The GridPP Cloud pilot service is currently running the OpenStack Icehouse release, which provides an Infrastructure as a Service cloud, compatible with the Amazon Web Services APIs EC2 and S3. The hardware consists of 2 x Dell C6220 servers, which offer GlusterFS and compute resources, 1 Dell R420 controller node and 4 x Viglen Sandy Bridge servers for compute.  In total there are 216 cores of compute and 704 GB RAM. 
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Nova-network is in use at the moment, while there are plans to test Neutron, especially once it has good IPv6 support.
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[http://www.gluster.org GlusterFS] is used to provide distributed storage for Glance (the VM image service), shared instance storage and Cinder persistent volumes.
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Provisioning was mostly based on [https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Packstack Packstack], which uses Puppet, and is under rapid development.
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'''Access and Usage'''
 
'''Access and Usage'''
 
Requests for access should be sent to [mailto:gridpp-cloud-admin@imperial.ac.uk gridpp-cloud-admin@imperial.ac.uk].  Once an account has been created, you will be sent a zip file with the credentials needed for access using the Nova and EC2 APIs.
 
  
 
Documentation on how to use the cloud, image availability etc. is under preparation, starting with a basic getting started guide below.
 
Documentation on how to use the cloud, image availability etc. is under preparation, starting with a basic getting started guide below.
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We are open to provide access to other GridPP sites to test our infrastructure. Request for access can be sent to lcg_admin@physics.ox.ac.uk.
 
We are open to provide access to other GridPP sites to test our infrastructure. Request for access can be sent to lcg_admin@physics.ox.ac.uk.
 
We are in the process of preparing a user guide for OpenStack cloud.
 
We are in the process of preparing a user guide for OpenStack cloud.
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[[Category:Cloud & VM]]

Latest revision as of 12:27, 11 December 2019

GridPP Cloud resources at Imperial
All cloud resources at Imperial are funded via IRIS. Access to these resources is granted via an IRIS Resource Request. Please contact Pete Clarke at Edinburgh for further information.

Access and Usage

Documentation on how to use the cloud, image availability etc. is under preparation, starting with a basic getting started guide below.

Getting Started

Images and Tools


Old status reports

Dec 18th 2012
Feb 1st 2013



Other GridPP sites' cloud resources


UKI-SCOTGRID-ECDF

Overview

ECDF are currently host an Amazon compatible, Infrastructure as a Service, Cloud pilot. The pilot service started in September 2012. The purpose of this pilot is to understand the processes required and the barriers to overcome in providing such a service; and to deliver a service platform to a number of research projects for the duration of the pilot. At the end of the pilot they will capture descriptions of usage and user experience.

Technical description

The ECDF Cloud Pilot is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) compatible cloud implemented with open-source OpenStack. The Pilot provides an "Infrastructure as a Service" cloud that is compatible with Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). The hardware consists of a number of IBM x3550 servers, each with two quad-core 3 GHz Xeon processors and 16 GB RAM providing approximately 200 compute cores.

Resources

An overview of the service is provided here:

ECDF Cloud Pilot

Links to other documentation relating to the cloud pilot service:

Getting Started Guide

Cloud Client Tools

Cloud Images

Image Management


UKI-SOUTHGRID-OX-HEP

Overview

UKI-SOUTHGRID-OX-HEP is hosting an OpenStack based cloud test bed service. The main purpose of this activity is to participate in the GridPP cloud initiative and develop an understanding and knowledge of the cloud framework. We are also looking to explore use cases for our local physics users.

Technical Description

The cloud infrastructure at Oxford is currently running OpenStack Folsom release with multi host Nova-Network. It supports nova-api, Amazon compatible ec2 interface and horizon dashboard. We are also providing a limited number of public IP through floating network address. Currently we have a very small setup with a controller node, one compute node and storage node which provides block storage using OpenStack Cinder. We are planning to add few more compute nodes in near future.

Access and usage:

We are open to provide access to other GridPP sites to test our infrastructure. Request for access can be sent to lcg_admin@physics.ox.ac.uk. We are in the process of preparing a user guide for OpenStack cloud.