Flexible services for the support of research

by Matteo Turilli, David Wallom, Chris Williams, Steve Gough, Neal Curran, Richard Tarrant, Dan Bretherton, Andy Powell, Matt Johnson, Terry Harmer, Peter Wright,

and John Gordon

Philosophical Transactions AVolume 371(1983):20120067

January 28, 2013

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Composite user application requirements are passed into eZeel, which then interrogates each resource provider and returns a set of offers for available instances.

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Overall system architecture showing instances and storage blocks being instantiated from the user interface, interacting through eZeel with the hybrid cloud.

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Operation of the flexible storage service.

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Architecture for the development of the flexible storage service use case.

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Performance of GlusterFS across multiple cloud instances in FleSSR: (a) random write and (b) random read.

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(a) Eucalyptus infrastructure based on CentOS-5 and (b) Eucalyptus 2.0.2 infrastructure based on Ubuntu 10.10.

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Provision of a single instance for code support and bug investigation.

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Description of software build operation with compilation instances running on public cloud.

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