BonFIRE: The Clouds and Services Testbed

Author

Kavoussanakis, Konstantinos ; Hume, Alastair ; Martrat, Josep ; Ragusa, Carlo ; Gienger, Michael ; Campowsky, Konrad ; Van Seghbroeck, Gregory ; Vazquez, Carlos ; Velayos, Celia ; Gittler, Frederic ; Inglesant, Philip ; Carella, Giuseppe ; Engen, Vegard ;

Author_Institution

EPCC, Univ. of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

Volume

2

fYear

2013

fDate

2-5 Dec. 2013

Firstpage

321

Lastpage

326

Abstract

BonFIRE is a multi-site test bed that supports testing of Cloud-based and distributed applications. BonFIRE breaks the mould of commercial Cloud offerings by providing unique functionality in terms of observability, control, advanced Cloud features and ease of use for experimentation. A number of successful use cases have been executed on BonFIRE, involving industrial and academic users and delivering impact in diverse areas, such as media, e-health, environment and manufacturing. The BonFIRE user-base is expanding through its free, Open Access scheme, daily carrying out important research, while the consortium is working to sustain the facility beyond 2014.

Keywords

Web services; cloud computing; program testing; BonFIRE multisite testbed; advanced cloud features function; cloud offerings; cloud-based applications; clouds testbed; control function; distributed applications; e-health; ease-of-use function; electronic health; environment; manufacturing; media; observability function; open access scheme; services testbed; Bandwidth; Cloud computing; Computer architecture; Monitoring; Observability; Portals; Testing; Cloud testing; control; experimentation; observability; services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom), 2013 IEEE 5th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bristol

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CloudCom.2013.156

Filename

6735444