Open cirrus

Open Cirrus is one of 2008 HP , Intel and Yahoo , founded initiative that has set itself the goal of a complete research purposes open source - cloud computing to develop -Stack.

Motivation and Goals

The starting point was the situation that only the large cloud computing operators such as Google , Microsoft , Amazon or Yahoo have access to large, distributed data centers for developing and testing new systems and services , while most researchers have to fall back on simulations or small clusters . With Open Cirrus it should be possible to access software and hardware at a lower level , for example to install operating systems, to be able to access hardware functions directly or to operate daemons . In addition, the project consists of heterogeneous locations all over the world in order to be able to use several different data centers.

Open Cirrus aims to promote the development of new cloud computing applications and research at the application level. The platform should also be available for real-world applications.

Furthermore, Open Cirrus provides a collection of experimental data that are necessary to carry out high quality research.

In order to promote the further diffusion of cloud computing, Open Cirrus is developing an open source cloud computing stack and associated, non-proprietary APIs .

Participating companies and institutions

In 2010 the following were involved in the project:

• Carnegie Mellon University
• Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute in South Korea
• HP Labs
• Infocomm Development Authority in Singapore
• Intel Research
• Karlsruher Institute for Technology
• Malaysian Institute of Microelectronic Systems
• National Science Foundation
• Russian Academy of Sciences
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Yahoo Research

Web links

• Open Cirrus at Intel Labs Pittsburgh

Individual evidence

1. ^ Juan Carlos Perez: HP, Intel and Yahoo get help in Open Cirrus cloud project. In: Computerworld. September 27, 2010, accessed February 4, 2017 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Arutyun I. Avetisyan, Roy Campbell, Indranil Gupta, Michael T. Heath, Steven Y. Ko, Gregory R. Ganger, Michael A. Kozuch, David O'Hallaron, Marcel Kunze, Thomas T. Kwan, Kevin Lai, Martha Lyons, Dejan S. Milojicic, Hing Yan Lee, Yeng Chai Soh, Ng Kwang Ming, Jing-Yuan Luke, Han Namgoong: Open Cirrus: A Global Cloud Computing Testbed . In: Computer . tape 43 , no. 4 , April 1, 2010, ISSN  0018-9162 , p. 35-43 , doi : 10.1109 / MC.2010.111 .