BonFIRE brings together leading testbed providers to offers a pan-European federation of test beds for large scale experimentation of cloud and service technologies. Each testbed provider offers resources using an Infrastructure-as-a-Service delivery model which are then provisioned for experimentation using BonFIRE methodologies and tools.
Most of the testbed providers offer both permanent and on-request resources.
Permanent resources target experimenters who are tackling smaller scale
problems and require fast access. On-request resources are for
larger-scale experiments and will be made available on request for
specific experiments. Moreover, the on-request functionality also allows you to reserve a physical machine (or cluster of physical machines) exclusively to your experiment.
The set of testbeds currently offered by BonFIRE is shown in Figure 1, which comprises EPCC, HP, iMinds, Inria, USTUTT, PSNC and Wellness Telecom (WT). Detailed information about the infrastructure offerings is maintained [here]. ![]() Figure 1: BonFIRE Infrastructure Overview Deploying and accessing resources on the different testbeds is done in a seamless manner via the BonFIRE API, which is based on OCCI. Since the availability of public IP addresses varies across the testbeds, BonFIRE implements a WAN to which all VMs can be connected. SSH Gateways are in place at every testbed, allowing experimenter to connect to the VMs that are not publicly accessible, using SSH. Moreover, each testbed is connected via the BonFIRE WAN, which means you can access VMs on any testbed via a single SSH Gateway. EPCC
1 server Intel Xeon E5620 (2x4 cores) 2x 148GB + 12x 2TB
Inria
USTUTT
iMinds
The Virtual Wall in iLab.t is a generic test and emulation environment for advanced network, distributed software and service evaluation, supporting scalability research. It consists of 100 nodes, interconnected via a non-blocking central switch, and a display wall of 20 monitors for experiment visualization. The iMinds Virtual Wall supports experimenters with a fully controlled network environment, where various network topologies can be defined and link capacities and impairments (packet loss rate, delay, background traffic) can be adapted on-the-fly.
PSNC
Wellness Telecom
Wellness Telecom is a young Information and Telecommunication
Technologies SME located in Seville (Spain). It
endeavors to offer innovative solutions using cutting edge technologies
at national and international levels. Wellness Telecom's mains
specialization areas are based on horizontal IT technologies applied to
different action fields: Health, Smart City, Cloud, Energy, Environment,
etc.
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