The BonFIRE Foundation

The BonFIRE Foundation was established in December 2013 to operate the multi-site Cloud testing facility that was developed within the EC FP7 funded BonFIRE project (see further below for more details about this). The BonFIRE Foundation comprises members from world-leading industrial and academic partners, dedicated to continue to deliver services that enable developers to research new, faster, cheaper, or more flexible ways of running applications with new business models.

The BonFIRE Foundation continues to run the BonFIRE multi-site Cloud testing facility via two committees, one focusing on strategic development, and one dealing with the day-to-day operation of the facility.

BonFIRE Foundation Members
	Josep Martrat TMT Market Manager, Research & Innovation, Atos
	Kostas Kavoussanakis Project Manager, EPCC, The University of Edinburgh
	Michael Boniface Technical Director, IT Innovation Centre, University of Southampton
	David Margery Technical Director for Grid'5000, Inria, Rennes
	Bastian Koller Manager of HLRS, University of Stuttgart
	Tim Wauters Project Manager, iMinds, Ghent University
	Bartosz Belter Head of Network R&D, Poznan Super Computing and Networking Center

BonFIRE Operations Members
	Vegard Engen Research Engineer, IT Innovation Centre, University of Southampton
	Michael Gienger Head of Service Management & Business Processes Group, HLRS, University of Stuttgart
	David Garcia Perez Functional Analyst, Research & Innovation, Atos
	Gregory Van Seghbroeck Senior Researcher, iMinds, Ghent University
	Julien Lefeuvre R&D Engineer, Inria, Rennes
	Michał Giertych Job title, Poznan Super Computing and Networking Center
	Gareth Francis Systems Developer, EPCC, The University of Edinburgh

The BonFIRE Project: A Brief History

Before the BonFIRE Foundation was established to run the BonFIRE multi-site Cloud facility, it was developed and operated within the BonFIRE project. The project was funded by the EC FP7 under grant agreement number 257386, with a contribution of 7,2M Euro, including 1,34M Euro for 2 open calls for experiments, and ran from June 2010 to December 2013.

The initial core BonFIRE consortium brought together world leading industrial and academic organisations in cloud computing to deliver a robust, reliable and sustainable facility for large scale experimentally-driven cloud research. Multinational companies (ATOS, HP, SAP), renowned universities and super computing centres (UCM, EPCC, HLRS Stuttgart, iMinds, TUB), research centres (IT Innovation, FhG Fokus, Inria, i2CAT) and technology analysts (451 Group) provided the complimentary expertise and infrastructure resources necessary to accelerate the research and development within the Internet of Services community.

In September 2011, the consortium was extended to include PSNC and NextWorks to develop the networking features of BonFIRE. As a result of the 1st open call, the consortium was also extended in September 2011 to include additional research centres and companies using the facility for cloud computing research, namely University of Manchester, CESGA, CETIC, Cloudium Systems and RedZinc.

As a result of the 2nd open call, the consortium was extended again in September 2012 to include additional research centres and companies using the facility for cloud computing research, namely ICCS/ National Technical University of Athens, Televes SA, MTA SZTAKI, IN2, University of Patras and Cloud Provider Wellness Telecom to become an additional BonFIRE site.

Core project partners


ATOS, Spain	The University of Edinburgh (EPCC), United Kingdom	SAP AG, Germany	University of Stuttgart (HLRS), Germany

Fraunhofer Fokus (FhG Fokus), Germany	iMinds, Belgium	The French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (Inria), France	Hewlett-Packard (HPLB), United Kingdom

Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Spain	The i2CAT Foundation (I2CAT), Spain	The 451 Group (451G) United Kingdom	Technische Universität Berlin (TUB), Germany

University of Southampton (IT Innovation Centre), United Kingdom	Poznan Super Computing and Networking Centre (PSNC), Poland	Nextworks, Italy

Additional project partners from funded experiments (1st Open Call)


RedZinc, Ireland	Cloudium Systems, Ireland	Fundación Centro Tecnológico de Supercomputación de Galicia, Spain

Centre d’Excellence en Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication, Belgium		University of Manchester, UK

Additional project partners from funded experiments (2nd Open Call)


ICCS, Greece	MTA SZTAKI, Hungary	University of Patras, Greece

IN2, United Kingdom	Televes, Spain	Wellness Telecom, Spain