Kupa -- Cloud installation in MetaCenter

MetaCentrum provides access to a cloud computing testbed for users willing to test computing on clouds. To obtain access you have to provide short description of experiment and valid grid credential (certificate). Request should be send to cloud administrators ruda@ics.muni.cz.

Clouds are running with real (public) Internet address, no VPN is provided yet. Clouds are currently running on 64bit 8-core machine with 16 GB of memory, more worker nodes can be added on request. workspace-cloud-client-009 (TP1.3.3.1.) should be used to access our cloud.

Currently three images are provided:

• Nimbus (hello-cloud) ttylinux (32 bit, very small, useful for test)
• Nimbus base-image.tgz (32 bit, Debian 4.0)
• MetaCentrum worker node, on request (64bit, Debian 4.0)

Related links

• Cloud Quick Start Guide (globus.org)
• Cloud client software
• configuration file for our cloud, see last two lines for architecture specification and default memory size (0.5GB)