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CONTRAIL
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Partner: XLAB Razvoj Programske Opreme In Svetovanje d.o.o., Slovenia; Italian National Research Council, ISTI-CNR & IIT-CNR, Italy; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Science and Technology Facilities Council, STFC, UK; Genias Benelux bv, The Netherlands; Tiscali Italia SpA, Italy; Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin, ZIB, Germany; Hewlett Packard Italiana S.r.l - Italy Innovation Center, Italy; Country Constellation Technologies Ltd, UK; Linagora, France.
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Abstract: The goal of the Contrail project is to design, implement, evaluate and promote an open source system for Cloud Federations. Resources that belong to different operators will be integrated into a single homogeneous federated Cloud that users can access seamlessly. The Contrail project will provide a complete Cloud platform which integrates Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offerings [39] .
In 2013, we led the evaluation of Contrail software stack [57] . We also completed the design and implementation of VEP [56] , [51] advanced features such as the reservation manager and scheduler. We defined a revised version of the API and implemented the CIMI interface. We ported VEP on top of the OpenStack IaaS management system. We worked on the integration of VEP with the other Contrail components. We set up an open permanent testbed for VEP and a testbed running Contrail software stack for internal use by consortium members to allow extensive tests with applications. Christine Morin is the coordinator of Contrail project and Roberto Cascella is the technical manager. Christine Morin leads WP 10 on Contrail global architecture. Yvon Jégou leads WP 5 on VEP and WP 13 on testbeds.
BonFIRE
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Defi: Future internet experimental facility and experimentally-driven research
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Partner: The university of Edinburgh (U.K.); SAP AG (Germany); Universitaet Stuttgart (Germany); Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foaerung der Angewandten Forshung E.V (Germany); Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology (Belgium); Universidad Complutense De Madrid (Spain) ; Fundacio Privada I2CAT, Internet I Innovacio Digital A Catalunya (Spain); Hewlett-Packard Limited (U.K.); The 451 Group Limited (U.K.) Techniche Universitat Berlin (Germany); University of Southampton (U.K.); Inria (France); Instytut Chemii Bioorganicznej Pan (Poland); Nextworks (Italy); Redzinc Services Limited (Ireland); Cloudium systems Limited (Ireland); Fundacio Centro Technologico De Supercomputacion De Galicia (Spain); Centre d'Excellence en technologies de l'Information et de la communication (Belgium); University of Manchester (U.K.);
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Abstract: The BonFIRE (Building service testbeds for Future Internet Research and Experimentation) project has designed, built and operated a multi-site cloud facility to support applications, services and systems research targeting the Internet of Services community within the Future Internet (http://www.bonfire-project.eu ). The Myriads team is involved in this project as it hosts the Aladdin ADT.
In the context of BonFIRE, we operate one of the five cloud sites integrated into the BonFIRE cloud federation. This cloud site is based on OpenNebula and can be extended on-request to all the machines of the local Grid'5000 site. We have also contributed to the cloud federation layer and host the integration infrastructure for the project, generated from configuration management tools using puppet.
PaaSage
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Objectif: ICT-2011.1.2 Cloud Computing, Internet of Services and Advanced Software Engineering
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Partner: SINTEF (Norway), Science and Technology Facilities Council (UK), University of Stuttgart (Germany), Inria (France), Centre d'Excellence en Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication (Belgium), Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (Greece), BE.Wan SPRL (Belgium), EVRY AS (Norway), SysFera SAS (France), Flexiant Limited (UK), Lufthansa Systems AG (Germany), Gesellschaft fur Wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung MBH Gottingen (Germany), Automotive Simulation Center Stuttgart (Germany), University of Ulm (Germany), Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza im. Stanisława Staszica (Poland), University of Cyprus (Cyprus), IBSAC-Intelligent Business Solutions ltd (Cyprus), University of Oslo (Norway)
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See also: http://www.paasage.eu/
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Abstract: PaaSage aims to deliver an open and integrated platform to support both deployment and design of Cloud applications, together with an accompanying methodology that allows model-based application development, configuration, optimisation, and deployment on multiple Cloud infrastructures.
Fed4FIRE
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Defi: Future internet experimental facility and experimentally-driven research
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Objectif: ICT-2011.1.6 Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) with a specific focus on b) FIRE Federation
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Partner: Interdisciplinary institute for broadband technology (iMinds, Belgium), University of Southampton (It Innovation, United Kingdom) Universite Pierre et Marie Curie - paris 6 (UPMC, France) Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung e.v (Fraunhofer, Germany) Technische Universitat Berlin (TUB, Germany) The University of Edinburgh (UEDIN, United Kingdom) National Ict Australia Limited (NICTA, Australia) Atos Spain SA (Atos, Spain) Panepistimio Thessalias (University of Thessaly) (UTH, Greece) National Technical University of Athens (NTUA, Greece) University of Bristol (UNIVBRIS, United Kingdom) Fundacio Privada i2cat, Internet I Innovacio Digital a Catalunya (i2cat, Spain) Eurescom-European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications (EUR, Gmbh Germany) Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe limited (DANTE limited, United Kingdom) Universidad de Cantabria (UC, Spain) National Information Society agency (NIA, Korea (republic of))
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Abstract: In Fed4FIRE, we investigate the means by which our experimental platforms (BonFIRE, and in a secondary way Grid'5000) could be made interoperable with a wider eco-system of experimental plateforms in Europe and beyond. The baseline architectural choice for this project is to use the key concepts of the Slice Federation Architecture (SFA) to provision resources on experimental platforms, a Control and Management Framework for Networking Testbeds named OMF for experiment control and OML, the OMF Measurment library for data collection. We investigate whether these can be used to run experiments on BonFIRE and how they need to be extended to support to operating model of BonFIRE.
ECO2Clouds
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Defi: Future internet experimental facility and experimentally-driven research
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Objectif: ICT-2011.1.6 – Target outcome c) FIRE Experimentation
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Partner: Atos Spain SA (ATOS, Spain) The University of Manchester (UNIMAN, United Kingdom) The University of Edinburgh (UEDIN, United Kingdom) Universitaet Stuttgart (USTUTT, Germany) Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI, Italy)
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Abstract: In ECOClouds, we add to BonFIRE energy probes to be able to measure power consumption of the infrastructure, combine it with information about energy sources used to produce the power so as to be able to bill Co usage to experimenters running VMs. To allow for scheduling and adaptation of running applications, CO usage is not only billed after the fact but also quoted in advance for a given period for according to resource usage units.
HARNESS
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Defi: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
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Objectif: ICT-2011.1.2 Cloud Computing, Internet of Services and Advanced Software Engineering
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Partner: Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland), Université de Rennes 1 (UR1, France), Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationtechniek Berlin (ZIB, Germany), Maxeler Technologies (MAX, United Kingdom), SAP AG (SAP, Germany)
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Abstract: The HARNESS FP7 project aims to incorporate innovative hardware and network technologies seamlessly into data centres that provide platform-as-a-service cloud infrastructures.
The dominant approach in offering cloud services today is based on homogeneous commodity resources: large numbers of inexpensive machines, interconnected by off-the-shelf networking equipment, supported by stock disk drives. However, cloud service providers are unable to use this platform to satisfy the requirements of many important and high-value classes of applications.
Today’s cloud platforms are missing out on the revolution in new hardware and network technologies for realising vastly richer computational, communication, and storage resources. Technologies such as Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), General-Purpose Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU), programmable network routers, and solid-state disks promise increased performance, reduced energy consumption, and lower cost profiles. However, their heterogeneity and complexity makes integrating them into the standard Platform as a Service (PaaS) framework a fundamental challenge.
The HARNESS project brings innovative and heterogeneous resources into cloud platforms through a rich programme of research, validated by commercial and open source case studies.
Collaborations in European Programs, except FP7
ICT COST
Participants : Eugen Feller, Christine Morin, Anne-Cécile Orgerie.
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Project title: Energy efficiency in large scale distributed systems
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Coordinator: Professor Jean-Marc PIERSON, IRIT, France, http://www.irit.fr/cost804/
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Other partners: 22 COST countries and 7 non-COST institutions
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Abstract: The COST Action IC0804 proposes realistic energy-efficient alternate solutions to share IT distributed resources. As large scale distributed systems gather and share more and more computing nodes and storage resources, their energy consumption is exponentially increasing. While much effort is nowadays put into hardware specific solutions to lower energy consumptions, the need for a complementary approach is necessary at the distributed system level, i.e. middleware, network and applications. The Action characterizes the energy consumption and energy efficiencies of distributed applications. Then based on the current hardware adaptation possibilities and innovative algorithms it proposes adaptive and alternative approaches taking into account the energy saving dimension of the problem. The Action characterizes the trade-off between energy savings and functional and non-functional parameters, including the economic dimension.
In April 2013, Anne-Cécile Orgerie presented a demonstration of Snooze system at the final COST workshop [36] .
MC-DATA
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Other partners: Université de Rennes 1 (UR1, France), Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationtechniek Berlin (ZIB, Germany), Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS, Sweden), Vodafone (Germany)
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Abstract: the MC-DATA project has two main innovation objectives: (a) to provide and release a novel open-source Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud computing software stack (MC-ConPaaS) that explicitly targets cloud application deployments across multiple data centers; (b) to demonstrate the business value of the MC-ConPaaS platform through a use case of cloud-assisted real-time smartphone applications, thus affecting the future business models of mobile operators.