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The Open Cloud Consortium (OCC):

  1. Supports the development of standards for cloud computing and frameworks for interoperating between clouds;
  2. develops benchmarks for cloud computing;
  3. supports reference implementations for cloud computing, preferably open source reference implementations;
  4. manages a testbed for cloud computing called the Open Cloud Testbed;
  5. 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.