A credit card system for Virtual machines within FutureGrid
Abstract
A well defined and marketed payment model has existed since the beginning of Cloud Computing, primarily among the commercial cloud vendors such as Amazon or Rackspace. While their propriety systems function in this industrial setting, there is no non-for-profit or academic analog to effectively measure and value a cloud services. As such, this project looks to investigate the feasibility of an academic payment model for institutions who would like to use large Cloud systems targeted for HPC and academia without getting locked into a commercial vendor. In specific, focus will be on the Nimbus and Eucalyptus IaaS providers to create a system to properly equate usage to value.
Intellectual Merit
This work will investigate what is necessary to set up a payment system for scientific Clouds in order to better value large scale resources within an academic research environment.
Broader Impact
This work may provide an effective value-credit model for scientific Cloud computing, especially for use within FutureGrid or perhaps the TeraGrid.
Use of FutureGrid
Will need root access to Nimbus and Eucalyptus services running on 1 or more FG resources. Coordination of access will be through Greg Pike.
Scale Of Use
The scale of this project is minimal, as only a trivial amount of VMs will be deployed in order to test the system.
Publications
Results
Results will be provided in a written technical report.
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