Cloud Computing Testbed Requirements

ESIP Cloud Computing Testbed Requirements Document

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