The Open Cloud Consortium (OCC):
- Supports the development of standards for cloud computing
and frameworks for interoperating between clouds;
- develops benchmarks for cloud computing;
- supports reference implementations for cloud computing, preferably
open source reference implementations;
- manages a testbed for cloud computing called the
Open Cloud Testbed;
- sponsors workshops and other events related to cloud computing.
The Open Cloud Consortium is organized into different
working
groups.
If you are interested in joining the Open Cloud Consortium, please
send email to info at opencloudconsortium.org
What's New
- March 29, 2009 For recent news, please see the OCC
News Wiki.
- January 7, 2009. An
article about the Open Cloud Consortium appeared in
Network World.
- November 20, 2008, Sector/Sphere and the Open Cloud Testbed
win the SC 08 Bandwidth Challenge. The Open Cloud Consortium
participated in an entry that consisted of several cloud
applications running on the Open Cloud Testbed, which won the
SC 08
Bandwidth Challenge. This included a terasort running on the Open
Cloud Testbed that spanned the continental US and sustanined an
average throughput of 4.8 Gb/s and a peak throughput of 10 Gb/s.
Racks located in Chicago, Baltimore and San Diego were used
in the entry.
- November, 2008, Thrift Interoperability Study. A study
was completed that used Thrift to provide interoperability for
storage clouds, including the Hadoop DFS and the Sector
DFS.
- October, 2008, MalStone. The Open Cloud
Consortium developed a preliminary version of a benchmark
called MalStone for benchmarking clouds that provide
on-demand computing capacity. MalStone includes code
to generate synethetic events.
- October 22-23, 2008, CCA 08. The Open Cloud Consortium
was one of the sponsors of conference Cloud Computing and its
Applications (CCA 08) that took
place in Chicago on 22 and 23, 2008. Werner Vogels, the CTO of
Amazon, gave the keynote.
- September 15-16, 2008. The Open Cloud Testbed was
part of the CENIC CalREN HPC/XD Workshop
at Calit2 in La Jolla, California. Demonstrations involving Hadoop
and Sector will be shown. As far as we know, this is the first
public demonstration of a wide area cloud that uses upon wide area
10 Gb/s networks.
- September 2, 2008. The Open Cloud Testbed was upgraded
from 240 cores to 480 cores. We are currently planning to add
additional sites to the Open Cloud Testbed. If you would like to
join the testbed, please contact us.
- June 2, 2008.
The Open Cloud Testbed is up and available for initial testing.
The testbed consists of four racks located in Chicago at StarLight,
in Chicago at the University of Illinois at Chicago, in La Jolla at
Calit2 (part of UCSD), and in Baltimore at Johns Hopkins University.
10GE connectivity is provided by the Cisco C-Wave.
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