Towards an Open Cloud Exchange

Kristi Nikolla, Mass Open CloudMonty Taylor, Red Hat

•Today’s cloud landscape•Use cases for an OCX•The MOC•Things we’ve done•Lessons learned•Possible next steps

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Is a different model possible?An “Open Cloud eXchange (OCX)”

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CATHEDRAL BAZAAR● Alibaba● Amazon● Baidu● Google● Microsoft

● Mass Open Cloud● NorthEast Storage Exchange● FGPA Services● GPU Services● Open Datahub● My cousins Minecraft Server● Etc. etc.

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THE MASS Open Cloud COLLABORATORS

•90,000 square feet + can grow•17+ thousand HPC users, potentially many more cloud users

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Project: BigDataResearchCollab

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Project Summary BillMVP :1 page per projectProject NameSponsoring organizationProject Lead NameProject Lead EmailPer VM Compute Usage Per VM Memory UsageTotals for these

Projects by Institution

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We have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work.

--Apologies to Edison

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• We planned to pull the data together ourselves and generate the reports (by now it was late 2017)

Area where we will need the most help!

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