BonFIRE version 3.1 has been released, bringing many new features and
improvements to the experimenters of BonFIRE. The main additions to this
release and highlights for the next release are described below.
Amazon InterconnectionIn order to provide more compute resources, BonFIRE interconnects with Amazon's Elastic Cloud Computing. Please check the documentation pagehttp://doc.bonfire-project.eu/R3.1/reference/amazon-connector.html for more information. AccountingThe accounting service allows experimenters to track what resources were utilized by a particular experiment. Users can use a REST interface to get access to raw accounting data for each of their experiments. Please visit the documentation page http://doc.bonfire-project.eu/R3.1/experiment/resource-usage.html for more information.Improved Elasticity as a ServiceSince release 3, BonFIRE allows experimenters to increase or decrease the number of VMs in an experiment at run-time, based on user-defined rules. Release 3.1 offers cross-site Elasticity as a Service and it is now supported from the Experiment Manager. Our document explains how to use these features: http://doc.bonfire-project.eu/R3.1/elasticity/using-EaaS.htmlImproved Groups FunctionalityBonFIRE provides groups functionality. All BonFIRE resources belong to a group. Resources linked to a group can be seen, managed and used by allmembers of that group; also the SSH public keys of all users in the group are automatically propagated to the group VMs on resource creation. This allows for resource sharing between members of the same group. Our documentation describes how groups are handled: http://doc.bonfire-project.eu/R3.1/getting-started/group-management.html Cells and OpenNebula upgradesNumerous stability upgrades have been applied to the OpenNebula and HP Cells sites. Of particular importance to experimenters is the extended IP range for sites; please check the user documentation and update your SSH configuration scripts: http://doc.bonfire-project.eu/R3.1/getting-started/ssh-gateway-config.html | Support for Open AccessThe BonFIRE project supports Open Access, where the facility is opened to external experiments not funded by the project. Each request for access is evaluated on a case-by-case basis considering business, infrastructure, quality and coverage impact criteria. Contractual agreements will be established between parties as necessary. The official opening of the scheme will be announced soon.Coming Soon
Although we strived to do so, we have not been able to release AutoBAHN and Federica as planned for this release. Development is complete, but we are working on some technical issues, some of which outside our control (cross-site networking), that we have not been able to resolve. We will provide this functionality as soon as it is ready. We apologise for this delay. AutoBAHN InterconnectionTo support bandwidth-on-demand (BoD) functionality and to offer QoS-guaranteed network services to network-aware experiments, BonFIRE will interconnect with the GÉANT Automated Bandwidth Allocation across Heterogeneous Networks (AutoBAHN) facility.FEDERICA InterconnectionBonFIRE will interconnect with FEDERICA (http://www.fp7-federica.eu/), which provides user defined routing and allows experimenters to create specific network configuration comprised of virtual routers.![]() |