The Open Cloud Testbed: A Wide Area Testbed for Cloud Computing Utilizing High Performance Network Services
Robert Grossman, Yunhong Gu, Michal Sabala, Collin Bennet, Jonathan, Seidman, Joe Mambratti

TL;DR
The paper introduces the Open Cloud Testbed, a large-scale, wide-area cloud computing infrastructure with high-performance networking, designed for benchmarking, interoperability testing, and developing new cloud services.
Contribution
It presents the design, implementation, and utilities of the OCT, a unique wide-area cloud testbed with dedicated high-speed networks and tools for cloud system development and testing.
Findings
Successfully deployed 120 nodes across four data centers
Developed benchmarks and interoperability studies for cloud systems
Established utilities for node/network provisioning and monitoring
Abstract
Recently, a number of cloud platforms and services have been developed for data intensive computing, including Hadoop, Sector, CloudStore (formerly KFS), HBase, and Thrift. In order to benchmark the performance of these systems, to investigate their interoperability, and to experiment with new services based on flexible compute node and network provisioning capabilities, we have designed and implemented a large scale testbed called the Open Cloud Testbed (OCT). Currently the OCT has 120 nodes in four data centers: Baltimore, Chicago (two locations), and San Diego. In contrast to other cloud testbeds, which are in small geographic areas and which are based on commodity Internet services, the OCT is a wide area testbed and the four data centers are connected with a high performance 10Gb/s network, based on a foundation of dedicated lightpaths. This testbed can address the requirements of…
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Taxonomy
TopicsCloud Computing and Resource Management · Advanced Optical Network Technologies · Software-Defined Networks and 5G
