Cloud Computing Testbed Requirements

• Earth Science Information Requirements and Computational Characteristics
  • Data Intensive (Disk I/O, Network I/O)
  • Computing Intensive (Numerical Models)
  • Concurrent Intensive (Popular Services)
  • Intensity Spikes
  • Scalability/Reliability (guarantee % of up time)

• Vendor Capabilities
  • Scalability/Reliability (guarantee % of up time)

• • Maximum or Available Capacity
    • Operation
    • Spike
    • CPU Core
    • RAM
    • Storage
    • Network (In-bound, Out-bound)

• • Cost Model (how vendor charge the following aspects) and Cost
    • Operation
    • Spike
    • CPU Core
    • RAM
    • Storage
    • Network (In-bound, Out-bound)
    • Other Facility (e.g., auto scaling, queue, logs, analyses, etc.)

• • Available User Interfaces and Supported services, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS
    • Web Interface
    • SSH Linux type of interface
    • Or community open APIs

• • Usability and Manageability

• • Security and Auditability (FISMA supports)

• • References supporting other science-based orgs
    • Successful Domain Projects
    • Deployed science-domain projects using their platform