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Experimenting on BonFIRE P.1 Open Access P.2
Full control of your resource deployment. Spec your virtual machines as you wish and control the deployment
Computer Systems (ICCS). This experiment investigates and aims to optimise a service management approach for delivering Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees for large-scale
Controlled networking by setting up bespoke network topologies, impairments and background traffic
between resources.
physical,
virtual
and
application
Another experiment interested in multi-Cloud deployments of services has been conducted by the Manchester Centre for Service Research (MCSR), investigating the creation of innovative services resulting from interactions between technology, organizations and people. The aim of the experiment was to investigate different service optimisation approaches to determine which better suited innovative service
Control: Establish your conditions for accurate and reliable testing. Advanced features: Unique features required
for future Cloud scenarios, such as controlled networking, custom VM instance types and controlled placement of VMs. Ease of use: Design experiments using a
Ease of use for through multiple client tools - Portal, Restfully, HTTP, Command Line Interface Tools and Experiment Descriptors
ecosystems. BonFIRE provided the possibility to emulate service ecosystems by geographically distributing components and services. In
One of the key features of BonFIRE is that experimenters have access to multiple sites that are geographically distributed and comprises
addition, BonFIRE also provided resources on demand, thus creating the dynamism of a real service ecosystem.
Another advantage of BonFIRE offering a multi-site facility is experimenters can benefit from doing experiments on different sites that offer specific, unique, features suitable for different stages of testing. For example, experimenting with controlled networking at the iMinds Virtual Wall site and thereafter validating the results with public internet across different sites.
BonFIRE has successfully funded 9 experiments through two open calls and now welcomes anybody to apply for free access to our unique multi-site facility in our Open Access initiative!
the effectiveness of their technologies in a new
Controlled networking is key to some experiments, such as MEDIAFIRE by IN2 Search Interfaces Development Ltd. MEDIAFIRE aims to assess, from both a technical and business perspective, the feasibility of deploying software services for the creative industries in the Cloud. The experiment was designed to deploy, scale, validate and finetune their distributed multimedia management and publishing platform. For this, they first experiment
With a similar aim to the TurboCloud experiment, CESGA came to BonFIRE to investigate the limits of their Cloud model based on virtual clusters. CESGA develops new useful
applications for the health sector that demands high computing capacities with a high QoS. For this the experiment Virtual Clusters on
The Fault-Tolerant Virtual Cluster solution will allow CESGA to produce new high throughput application services which delivers the expected Quality-of-Service to our customer. Even in the case that our own resources are exhausted, we can use Cloud to deliver the results on-time.
Javier Garcia Tobio Managing Director, CESGA
with controlled networking on the Virtual Wall. Thereafter, moving to multi-site testing, which they were able to do very easily due to the simple VM management process in BonFIRE.
Federated cloud Sites (VCOC) was deployed and tested on BonFIRE. They designed and tested a fault-tolerant Virtual Cluster architecture that adapts itself to the required QoS constraints, utilising multiple Cloud providers. A key outcome
Cloudium Systems and RedZinc are two SMEs who have performed a joint experiment in
of the experiment was to prove that the approach works and that federated Cloud infrastructures helps deliver a more stable service, improving on new services such as radiotherapy.
BonFIRE, called TurboCloud. They experimented with a combination of two technologies in the beta development stage to investigate QoS parameters related to delivering Desktop-as-a-Service. To measure the limits of performance, they needed real-life infrastructure that they could control. With controlled networking, they were able to validate
For more Information on past and current experiments in the BonFIRE, visit
http://www.bonfire-project.eu/innovation
"ExSec experiment results enable us to advise companies regarding the deployment of suitable Cloud solutions with the best security architecture that fit their cloud architecture and performance requirements"
Dr. Jean-Christophe Deprez Scientific Coordinator, CETIC
2013 Fraunhofer FOKUS, The University of Southampton IT Innovation Centre, The University of Edinburgh, ATOS Origin and other members of the BonFIRE