BonFIRE: the clouds and services testbed

Konstantinos Kavoussanakis (1) , Alastair Hume (1) , Josep Martrat (2) , Carmelo Ragusa (3) , Michael Gienger (4) , Konrad Campowsky (5) , Gregory Van Seghbroeck (6) , Constantino Vázquez (7) , Celia Velayos (8) , Frédéric Gittler (9) , Philip Inglesant (10) , Giuseppe Carella (11) , Vegard Engen (12) , Michal Giertych (13) , Giada Landi (14) , David Margery (15)

1 EPCC [Edinburgh]
2 ATOS [Barcelona]
3 SAP Research [Belfast]
4 HLRS - High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart [Stuttgart]
5 Fraunhofer FOKUS - Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems
6 Department of Information Technology [Gent]
7 UCM - Universidad Complutense de Madrid = Complutense University of Madrid [Madrid]
8 i2CAT - Fundació i2CAT
9 Hewlett-Packard Laboratories [Bristol]
10 451 Research Limited [London]
11 TU - Technical University of Berlin / Technische Universität Berlin
12 IT Innovation Centre [Southampton]
13 PSNC - Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center
14 NeXtworks - NeXtworks SRL [Pisa]
15 MYRIADS - Design and Implementation of Autonomous Distributed Systems

BonFIRE is a multi-site test bed that supports testing of Cloud-based and distributed applications. BonFIRE breaks the mould of commercial Cloud offerings by providing unique functionality in terms of observability, control, advanced Cloud features and ease of use for experimentation. A number of successful use cases have been executed on BonFIRE, involving industrial and academic users and delivering impact in diverse areas, such as media, e-health, environment and manufacturing. The BonFIRE user-base is expanding through its free, Open Access scheme, daily carrying out important research, while the consortium is working to sustain the facility beyond 2014.

Domaines: Calcul parallèle, distribué et partagé [cs.DC]

Konstantinos Kavoussanakis, Alastair Hume, Josep Martrat, Carmelo Ragusa, Michael Gienger, et al.. BonFIRE: the clouds and services testbed. Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom), 2013, Dec 2013, Bristol, United Kingdom. ⟨10.1109/CloudCom.2013.156⟩. ⟨hal-01087533⟩