MetaCloud
MetaCloud is a computing (HPC) cloud built using OpenNebula. Pilot cloud installation was prepared by MetaCentrum (CESNET) and CERIT-SC. MetaCloud is similar to e.g. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) or Google Compute Engine. MetaCloud is partially compatible with Amazon EC2.
Enjoy advantages of MetaCloud:
- Scalability - create virtual machines fully matching your needs.
- Accessibility - use the user-friendly Open Nebula web interface to manage your virtual machines.
- Flexibility - enjoy freedom in virtual machine management. Your virtual machine is fully in your hands. Install what you want and when you want, but always mind: with great power comes great responsibility.
- Quick deployment - deploy your virtual machine in couple of seconds.
- Storage on demand - store your data in your virtual machine (shared storage, Amazon S3 API, GridFTP) .
- Free for academic use - any member of any academic institution in the Czech Republic gets an access to MetaCloud.
MetaCloud interface allows you to obtain and configure virtual machines from various images (yours or MetaCentrum's), including images compatible with Amazon EC2. Moreover, MetaCloud offers ready-to-use templates and images with standard Linux OS. OS Microsoft Windows has limited use due to license conditions.
More information and documentation can be found at wiki.
http://meta.cesnet.cz/wiki/Kategorie:Clouds
Start now!
- Get an MetaCentrum account.
- Apply for a membership in MetaCloud.
- Manage your Virtual machine in web interface.
Questions?
OR
- Ask us on cloud@metacentrum.cz All the correspondence received in that e-mail addresses is recorded in RT (Request Tracker – request tracker) system, which creates a ticket and assigns an Id number to it.
MetaCloud hardware resources:
View current sizing and usage of MetaCloud resources.
More resources will be provided on demand.
MetaCloud use cases
KYPO
The KYPO - Cyber Exercise & Research Platform (KYPO) project aims to create an unique environment for research and development of new methods to protect critical infrastructure against cyber attacks. A developed virtualized environment will be used for simulation of complex cybernetic attacks against critical infrastructure and analyze their behavior and impact on the infrastructure. The KYPO will serve for research and development of new security tools and methods. In addition, it will be used for educating members of security teams.
Mycroft Mind
Mycroft Mind creates models and simulations to help energy suppliers respond to important technical questions concerning ways of developing distribution grids.
Galaxy
Galaxy is an open, web-based platform for data intensive biomedical research.
WeNMR
The objective of WeNMR is to optimize and extend the use of the NMR and SAXS research infrastructures through the implementation of an e-infrastructure in order to provide the user community with a platform integrating and streamlining the computational approaches necessary for NMR and SAXS data analysis and structural modelling. Access to the e-NMR infrastructure is provided through a portal integrating commonly used software and GRID technology.
Peachnote.com
Peachnote is a music score search engine and analysis platform. The system is the first of its kind and can be thought as an analog of Google Books Ngram Viewer and Google Books search for music scores. Hundreds of thousands of music scores are being digitized by libraries all over the world. In contrast to books, they generally remain inaccessible for content-based retrieval and algorithmic analysis. There is no analogue to Google Books for music scores, and there exist no large corpora of symbolic music data that would empower musicology in the way large text corpora are empowering computational linguistics, sociology, history, and other humanities that have printed word as their major source of evidence about their research subjects. We want to help change that. Peachnote provides visitors and researchers access to a massive amount of symbolic music data.
WS-PGRADE
WS-PGRADE is a portal environment for the development, execution and monitoring of workflows and workflow based parameter studies on different Distributed Computing Infrastructures (DCI). The tool is developed by an open consortium lead by MTA SZTAKI, member of the Hungarian NGI. WS-PGRADE is used by various scientific collaborations and support teams in Europe and beyond. WS-PGRADE is interfaced with Service Grids (gLite, UNICORE, ARC, Globus), Desktop Grids (BOINC) and cluster (PBS, LFS) middleware through the elements of the gUSE service stack. WS-PGRADE and gUSE are actively used and further developed in the SHIWA and SCI-BUS FP7 projects.
GAIA-Space
Gaia is a global space astrometry mission. Its goal is to make the largest, most precise three-dimensional map of our Galaxy by surveying an unprecedented number of stars - more than a thousand million.
BNCWeb
BNCWeb is an interface to the British National Corpus, a dataset of 100 million words, carefully sampled from a wide range of texts and conversations to provide a snapshot of British English in the late 20th century. This is a key reference work in English studies, linguistics and language teaching and is widely used in a wide variety of computational linguistic applications. BNCWeb offers powerful search and analysis functions for searching the text and exploiting the detailed textual metadata. It is an open source project, and the BNC is freely available for educational and research purposes.
DIRAC
The DIRAC interware project provides a framework for building ready to use distributed computing systems. It has been proven to be a useful tool for large international scientific collaborations integrating in a single system, their computing activities and distributed computing resources: Grids, Clouds and HTC clusters. In the case of Cloud resources, DIRAC is currently integrated with Amazon EC2, OpenNebula, OpenStack and CloudStack. Some Monte Carlo (MC)simulation campaign were realized at the large scale project Belle II, providing over 10.000 thousand CPU days from Amazon. Until this use case in Fedcloud-tf, all cases have made used of a single cloud at a time. The work integrates the resources provided by the multiple private clouds of the EGI Federated Cloud and additional WLCG resources, providing high-level scientific services on top of them by using the DIRAC framework. New design has been adopted by a federated hybrid cloud architecture (Rafhyc). Initial integration and scaling tests demonstrates the architecture is valid to manage federated hybrid cloud IaaS to provide eScience SaaS. The solution has been adopted by LHCb DIRAC for the LHCb computing on federated clouds, using end-points just like another computing resource.
CSGF
The Catania Science Gateway Framework (CSGF) has been developed by INFN, Division of Catania (Italy), to provide application developers with a tool to create Science Gateways in short time and in a very easy way. CSGF is made of a set of libraries to manage Authentication & Authorization mechanisms and to interact with several different kinds of DCIs (grid, cloud, HPC, local, etc.). The CSGT would like to use the EGI Federated Cloud to develop a new CSGF plugin implementing the service model SaaS exploiting OCCI. The use case is an interoperability test, implemented as a new Liferay portlet in CSGF, to make the portal capable of submitting applications to the EGI Federated Cloud, grids and HPC resources in a user-trasparent way.
ChainReds
In addition to CSGF, this project provides unified web interface for large-scale multi-cloud platform deployments. It's a new and easy way of accessing a global computing grid and the processing power of tens of thousands of cores are at the fingertips of anyone: researcher, student, or citizen scientist.
BioVel
BioVeL provides workflows for the processing of data in major areas of biodiversity research: population modelling, ecosystem functioning, and taxonomy.