Cloud Computing Testbed Requirements
From Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)
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Earth Science Information Requirements and Computational Characteristics
- Data Intensive (Disk I/O, Network I/O)
- Computing Intensive (Numerical Models)
- Concurrent Intensive (Popular Services)
- Cloud Virtual Hosting
- 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
- Web Interface
- SSH Linux type of interface
- Or community open APIs
- Supported Services
- SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.
- Supported OS
- Apache Hadoop
- Persistent object store
- Intercloud
- Usability and Manageability
- Security and Auditability (FISMA supports)
- References supporting other science-based orgs
- Successful Domain Projects
- Deployed science-domain projects using their platform
