Community cloud computing drives Harvad cloud computing

Harvard's Community Cloud Computing, Harvard University's cloud computing layout, is the second part of the Harvard Community Cloud Computing series.

Harvard CTO James Cuff, in the book, is meditating on a limited amount of usable space that is crammed with as much computing power as possible.

He uses insulated passages, insulated stents, modern cooling techniques and ventilation for a wide variety of equipment. Although most of the products of the big technology brands have been widely used in the Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cuff has even maintained an ancient sun rack in its cloud computing, located outside the insulated channel unit, and provides the registers and the wires in a large stack of hot boxes.

All of this seems like an act of complacency, but the lesson of cloud computing is that once you get the pipe, the location is not that important.

Led by Chris Hill at MIT, Boston University, Northeastern University, Massachusetts University and MIT, Harvard's research cloud Infrastructure moved 90 miles from Mass pike, doubling its economy. There is a 100GBPS channel for transferring data, and even a high-performance user experience will not be any different.

Hill said it was actively attracting projects to the new infrastructure so that it could be stimulated once the 2012 was formally opened. For cuff and other related people, this is essentially just another data center migration, end User Configuration, management and monitoring functions remain the same: automation, remote control speech and cloud computing.

Saul Youseff, who is in charge of IT operations at Boston University, particularly wants to implement the migration as soon as possible.

"We are currently using a large computer room in the physics department," Youseff said. "We have exhausted resources, and further expansion will be a major problem, mainly because of noise." "He runs the Support for Atlas Experiment Project Services, about 11 racks for servers and 1PB of storage space." Once migrated, he not only has nothing to lose, but also gain access to other participant resources directly, of course, other participants can directly access his resources. In some "green computing" PR to add some new ideas, the project became the ultimate winner, a "Community cloud computing," a vivid example.

This is the ideal future world for IT professionals, although many will sympathize with the difficulty of weighing factors such as space, energy and cooling. But the lesson is unforgettable--this may be the way it will develop in the future.

Once a merger occurs, if the network is present, this trend of hyper-density is bound to develop rapidly and inexorably, and it is seeking other tasks to further advance and focus on providing resources or applications rather than nanny-style greenhouses.

Data center operators will be able to do this, either by cloud operators such as Amazon, or you may find enough like-minded partners in your industry to invest in community cloud computing projects. The NYSE Euronext this year announced a service finance company's community cloud computing, along with a huge data center makeover, something the university is doing.

So next, how will the next five years of new Harvard cloud computing evolve? Will this make the last data center that Harvard runs? Cuff does not wish to be clarified too arbitrarily. "I think it may be so. I hope so, "he said.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)