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FutureGrid supports several clouds on various sites, providing the aggregate of over a thousand cores. All of FutureGrid clouds are roughly AWS-compatible allowing users to move between clouds relatively easily.

Nimbus

Nimbus is provided on four clouds on FutureGrid:

  • Hotel (University of Chicago): 41 nodes, 328 cores, Xen virtualization
  • Foxtrot (University of Florida): 26 nodes, 208 cores, Xen virtualization
  • Sierra (SDSC): 18 nodes, 144 cores, Xen virtualization
  • Alamo (TACC): 15 nodes, 120 cores, KVM virtualization

Nimbus provides a native API (WSRF) and an EC2-compatible API, as well as a storage solution (Cumulus) with an S3-compatible API.

OpenStack

OpenStack is provided on two clouds on FutureGrid:

  • India (Indiana University): 20 nodes, 16o cores, KVM virtualization, OpenStack Essex, five instance types with 1 to 8 CPUs, 512 MB to 16384 MB of memory, and up to 160 GB of ephemeral storage.
  • Alamo (TACC): 15 nodes, 120 cores, KVM virtualization, OpenStack Folsom, five instance types with 1 to 8 CPUs, 512 MB to 12288 MB of memory, and up to 160 GB of ephemeral storage.
  • Sierra (UCSD): 3 nodes, 24 cores, KVM virtualization, OpenStack Grizzly, five instance types with 1 to 8 CPUs, 512 MB to 16384 MB of memory, and up to 160 GB of ephemeral storage.

Eucalyptus

FutureGrid provides two Eucalyptus clouds:

  • India (Indiana University): 3 nodes, 24 cores, Xen virtualization, Eucalyptus 3.1, five instance types with 1 to 4 CPUs, 512 MB to 9216 MB of memory, and 5 GB to 20 GB of ephemeral storage
  • Sierra (UCSD): 15 nodes, 120 cores, Xen virtualization, Eucalyptus 3.1, five instance types with 1 to 4 CPUs, 256 MB to 2048 MB of memory, and 4 GB to 15 GB of ephemeral storage

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