csc cpouta cloud service @ vaasa university 18.2.2015
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CSC Cloud Services: cPouta
Olli-Pekka Lehto
Development Manager
Computing Platforms
@ople
cPouta
Infrastructure As A Service (IaaS)– Deploy your own virtual machines/storage/network– Similar to Amazon EC2, MS Azure, Google Cloud– Windows and Linux supported
Powered by OpenStack– We do a lot of integration / customization
Allocated from Taito supercluster– Powerful CPUs, lots of memory, fast disk
Simple to create and modify VMs– WWW, CLI & REST API interfaces
https://research.csc.fi/pouta-iaas-cloud
cPouta VM flavors
https://research.csc.fi/pouta-flavourshttps://research.csc.fi/taito-supercluster#1.1.2
• Server-class Xeon E5 (Sandy Bridge) CPUs• 2*8 cores, 2.6GHz
• Connected with 40Gbit Ethernet
cPouta Use Cases
Running applications– Custom Operating System
Windows, Ubuntu, Debian, Scientific Linux jne.
– Root/admin access needed for installation
Building custom services – Web servers, file servers etc.– Software Defined Infrastructure (DevOps)
Rapidly deploying dev/test/prod environments
Coursework
Whatever you can think of. Experiment!
DevOps –style demo
Using Ansible to create a Pouta web-service by Peter Jenkins, CSC
https://github.com/CSC-IT-Center-for-Science/pouta-ansible-demo
https://webcast.helsinki.fi/engage/ui/watch.html?id=20b7d92c-d115-4c2d-bfa2-
48bbab4e59d9
Live demo from IT Days 2014 Starting from 00:26:00
Development in 2015
cPouta development– Instances for non-compute intensive tasks– Docker (LXC) support
New ePouta service– Organizational customers– Tunneled to customer network (OPN/VPN)
A virtual extension of the datacenter
– Raised VAHTI security level
Services for data-intensive computing– Hadoop, Spark, Ceph etc.
ISO27001:2013 security certification
ISO27001:2013 certification
Reflects our commitment to security– Risk management– Leadership– Technical security & documentation– Continuous Improvement– Disaster recovery planning– Building security into the culture
CSC ICT services and datacenters– Sisu and Taito at the moment– Cloud being certified in 2015
Getting started
Academic use (OKM) free
Apply for an account at CSC, then request Pouta access– https://research.csc.fi/pouta-application– Initial quota for testing & minor work– More quota can be applied for
Other use at cost
Paid packages– Annual base package – Compute and storage quota options
Send mail to [email protected] for details
Why use CSC computing services?
High-end compute HW, storage, networks
Based on open standards
Free for academia
Secure operations
Data stays in Finland
Specialist support & consulting
Highly developed HPC software stack
Services for all usage levels– You can also mix & match!
Thank You!
@ople
http://research.csc.fi
@CSCfi @CoursesAtCsc @CSClehti
Current CSC cooling technologies
Water-air hybrid (Sisu)
Efficient air cooling (Taito)
Directwarm-water cooling
PUE: 1,2
PUE: 1,05 PUE: 1,02
Datacenter CSC KajaaniCSC’s modular Datacenter in Kajaani is built in the Renforsin Ranta business area, a former papermill site. The Datacenter is placed in an old paper warehouse over a hectare in size. For the first phase of CSC’s Datacenter a 3,000 m2 area is reserved. Due to its modular design the Datacenter can be easily expanded in the future.
At first, CSC’s new supercomputers and other CSC’s customer systems is placed in Kajaani. CSC’s new resources offers plenty of computing capacity.
PUE: 1.15!30MW local hydro powerYear-round free cooling