BonFIRE offers two ways to get access to the infrastructure open calls and open access. These are available at different stages in the project lifecycle as shown below. In all cases BonFIRE provides cloud resources and methods for describing, deploying, managing, executing and measuring experiments in our distributed cloud environment. BonFIRE will allow each experiment to run semi-autonomously. Each experimenter is free to operate as they see best provided they comply with agreements regarding use. However BonFIRE will ensure that the work progresses in order to reach these control points on time and to make sure that any problems are resolved and any needs met regarding the integration with the infrastructure.

How to get involved in relation to the project timeline

Open Call Experiments

2nd Open Call Information (Opens 1 Feb, Closes 7 March 2012)

We are mainly looking for Testing Experiments that want to trial on the Cloud software prototypes or semi-mature results of services R&D Internet of Services projects. Examples could be (but not restricted to) SMEs with beta technology, research partners with results of IoS previous calls project, academics with innovative technology in computer science, etc. The experiments can chose if they target scenario 1, 2 and/or 3. There is “an increase in realism” in the testing when approaching these scenarios. Therefore it is encouraged that the experiments target more than one scenario in their “research by experimentation” plan with the necessary justifications. The experiments should exploit the unique features of BonFIRE facility such as the following (the proposal should highlight one or more of the following characteristics):

• Controlled deployment on the multi-site clouds (scenario 1)
• Monitoring of standard metrics at VM or physical level
• Monitoring of user specified metrics (application level) at VM level
• Controlled/advanced emulated network (emulab) (for scenario 2)
• Controlled deployment with network bandwidth guarantee between 2 cloud sites (scenario 3)
• Access to heterogeneous resources, where the heterogeneity of the cloud resources and technologies must play an important role in the objective of the experiment (scenario 1 & 3)
• Typically the experiment would need to be distributed, with VMs deployed across at least 2 sites/admin domains (combination of scenarios 1 & 2 & 3)

Experiments shall propose innovative usage scenarios exploiting the multiple dimensions and scale of the facility. These activities should exhibit a degree of innovation in the use of the facility, including system level experiments, making a comprehensive use of several components of the facility, potential impact on users, etc.