[one-users] Let us know about your OpenNebula success stories

[Floris Sluiter]

Hi Borja,

We at Sara in the Netherlands are creating a HPC Cloud, based on Open nebula. We are also the developers of the graphical interface to open nebula: One-MC, which is available in the ecosystem. We recently did a call for proposals to the dutch community (it is currently a national service only, so people who apply should have an affiliation with the dutch scientific community, or be in a project).
For your information I sent you the press release. Feel free to ask us any questions directly!

Regards,

Floris Sluiter
Project Leader

=== Press release, call for (Dutch) proposals: ==

BiG Grid HPC Cloud service available in beta

Dear reader,

SARA is developing a High Performance Compute Cloud for the scientific community, funded by BiG Grid. Currently this HPC Cloud is offered in beta to a selected group of scientific users for evaluation purposes. We would like to invite members of the dutch scientific community to apply for evaluation use of the HPC Cloud.

With this newly developed High Performance Computing (HPC) Cloud environment researchers are provided with access to their own Virtual Private HPC Cluster. It is a virtualized HPC Cluster that can be configured to exactly match their needs, without interfering with the needs of other users. It is flexible, offers self service and is dynamically scalable. Users can start from existing templates (images), or built their own cluster from scratch. It is even possible to make a copy from their current software environment (for example their laptop or desktop pc) and turn that into a HPC cluster in the Cloud. In that way, there will hardly be any difference between their development environment and their production environment. There is no need for an (expensive) rewrite of their software, and scientific challenges can be scaled up very easily from desktop scale to High Performance Compute cluster scale.

When you wish to participate in this beta phase and want to make use of the developed service you are welcomed to submit a short proposal to claudia-support at sara.nl before midnight the 12th of May 2010. Procedures and details are specified below.

== Proposals (250-500 words) should consist of: ==
* a short description of your project objectives
* a project planning in weeks
* estimate of your desired compute hours
* estimate of the storage requirements

== What can be applied for? ==
* applicants will obtain access to the HPC Cloud
* the ability to submit and start your own virtual machines
* manage and configure your own submitted virtual machines
** Use existing templates, upload your own or configure from scratch with free choice of Operating System and applications
** Access to the virtual machines can be through console, ssh and over public_ip

== What is expected of successful applicants? ==
* an entrepreneurial spirit and open mindedness, because of the beta status of this service
* a written evaluation report on your experiences (1-2 pages)
* participation in a planned workshop in September

These and additional details can be found here: 
https://grid.sara.nl/wiki/index.php/Using_the_HPC_Cloud/betaevaluation

The SARA support team will actively support the implementation of your planned activities. We are especially interested in applications which are difficult or near impossible to run on the existing HPC platforms (Huygens, Lisa, Grid), but do run in your local environment.

In this beta phase we strive to offer a full production grade environment, we are however continuously improving the technical environment as well as the ways of working. This may have consequences on stability and availability.

Please don't hesitate to inform others interested, apologies for any double postings.

On behalf of the SARA HPC Cloud support team, 

Floris Sluiter &
Tom Visser

Mail: claudia-support at sara.nl
SARA Computing & Networking Services
High Performance Computing and Visualization http://www.sara.nl



-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces at lists.opennebula.org [mailto:users-bounces at lists.opennebula.org] On Behalf Of Borja Sotomayor
Sent: vrijdag 30 april 2010 16:48
To: users at lists.opennebula.org
Subject: [one-users] Let us know about your OpenNebula success stories

Hi everyone,

As Community Manager for OpenNebula, I'm in the process of preparing a 
presentation highlighting how OpenNebula is being used "in the wild", 
highlighting several success stories (successful deployments of 
OpenNebula on large number of nodes, innovative use cases involving 
OpenNebula, interesting solutions developed on top of OpenNebula, etc.)

Although I know of a couple such stories myself, I'd like to hear more 
from the community at large. So, if you have a particular success story 
you'd like to share, please contact me off-list and let me know about 
it. The more data, links, references, etc. you can provide, the better.

Right now, I am planning on delivering this presentation at the 
University of Chicago and at Northwestern University, both universities 
with strong distributed systems research groups. So, inclusion in this 
presentation can give you a chance to advertise your work more widely. I 
will also make the presentation available to anyone who wants to use it 
(and we hope to deliver it at other venues), and it is likely we will 
add a "Success Stories" section to our website based on the information 
we receive.

Cheers!
-- 
Borja Sotomayor
PhD Candidate in Computer Science, University of Chicago
http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~borja/
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