(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — HP (www.hp.com), Intel (www.intel.com) and Yahoo! (www.yahoo.com) revealed on Monday at the first Open Cirrus Summit that three new research organizations will join Open Cirrus (https://opencirrus.org), a global, multiple data center, open source test bed designed to advance cloud computing research.
The newly joined organizations include the Russian Academy of Sciences, South Korea’s Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, and MIMOS, a strategic research and development organization under Malaysia’s Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation.
Launched in July 2008, the Open Cirrus cloud computing test bed is designed to “promote open collaboration among industry, academia and governments by removing the financial and logistical barriers to research in data-intensive, Internet-scale computing,” according to the press release.
The Open Cirrus Summit brings together participating sites and researchers to share project progress, discuss new opportunities and compile research on all aspects of service and data center management.
The test bed is currently working on more than 50 research projects which simulate a realistic, global community, in which researchers can test applications and measure the performance of infrastructure and services designed to operate on large-scale cloud systems.
The expansion of the Open Cirrus community gives researchers access to new approaches and skill sets that will let them to fully take advantage of cloud computing technology.
The new institutes will also host additional test bed research sites and expand Open Cirrus to nine locations.
“The Open Cirrus test bed project is expanding its reach to new geographies and audiences around the globe and engaging the open-source community in the research and development of new cloud applications and services,” says Shelton Shugar, senior vice president of cloud computing at Yahoo!. “Since its introduction, the test bed has gained significant recognition by the global, collaborative research community, which has expressed an urgent need for greater access to large-scale computing infrastructure along with an open-source cloud stack essential to the study and advancement of the next wave of cloud applications and services.”
These new sites will contribute tools and best practices, as well as help further benchmark and compare alternative methods of service management at data center scale.
As the first Eastern European institution to join Open Cirrus, the Russian Academy of Sciences is comprised of the organizations Institute for System Programming, Joint SuperComputer Center, and Russian Research Center Kurchatov Institute.
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