a service in evolution

The ~okeanos public cloud

Vangelis Floros

CloudScape VI, 24-25 Feb 2014, Brussels

GRNET is...

The Greek research and technology network -Greek NREN

Academic Network provider and more...

also major national e-Infrastuctureprovider

✦Grids - Member of EGI

✦Supercomputers - Member of PRACE

✦Cloud computing - ~okeanos IaaS cloud

Government funded - Public cloud service targeting the Greek research and academic community

Based on in-house IaaS cloud software (Synnefo)

Layered, modular architecture

Support for standard APIs - mostly OpenStack compliant

Open source (Apache 2 license)

Currently running in production Beta

~ o k e a n o s G LO B A L

• Open access to all GÉANT users

through eduGAIN AAI service

• Collaboration with GÉANT GN3 -

SA7 “Support for Clouds”

• Blueprint for other NRENs to follow

EGI federated cloud TF

• Testbed integration - Focus on interoperability issues

• Support for additional APIs: OCCI, VOMS…

CDMI expected.

• Contribution with compute and storageresources

Automatic, Multi-Grained elasticity-provisioning for the cloud

CELAR is developing a fully automated and highly customizable system for elasticprovisioning of resources in cloud computing platforms.~okeanos is one of the two enabling platforms for elastic resource provisioning (the second provided by Flexiant)

Budget: €3.47 Μ (FP7-GA-#317790)

Duration: 36 months; Started: October 2012Project coordinator

ATHENA Research and Innovation Centre in ICKTWebsite: http://celarcloud.eu

First year review successfully passed. Currently developing core architecture, services and components.

UberCloud HPC experiment

“Using Cloud Computing to perform Molecular Dynamics simulations of the mutant PI3Kα protein”

Team 61Mentor

Wolfgang Gentzsch, HPC experiment

Team Expert

Dominique Dehareng, Center for Protein Engineering, University of Liège

Resource Provider: GRNET - Okeanos IaaS Cloud service

Vangelis Floros, Stefanos Gerangelos, Greek Research and Technology Network

S.A. (GRNET)

Software Provider

Al Wegener, CTO, Samplify - APAX compression software

End-User

Zoe Cournia, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens

gromacs performance on ~okeanos VMs

http://www.theubercloud.com/life-sciences/

• Green DC in Louros riverContainer-based datacenter. Innovative cooling solution (uses water from the river for IT cooling)Disaster recovery of main DC

• Main DC expansion• Procurement of additional hardware+ more supported architectures

More information

http://okeanos.grnet.gr

CELAR demo today @ 13:30

http://www.synnefo.org

http://www.grnet.gr

http://okeanos-global.grnet.gr