(Project finished.)

NDGF (Nordic DataGrid Facility) project 1/2010-12/2010

The NEON project's goal is to produce a report describing: state-of-the art of cloud computing; cost of moving and running non-HPC jobs on a cloud computing environment; how to do this in practice; a list of identified risks/benefits on a short/long perspective.

In addition the project does an educational and knowledge spreading effort in the Nordic region. A knowledge portal is established during the project, with input from many similar European cloud projects (ECEE - Enabling clouds for eScience).

The higher ambition with the project report is to gather decision information to policy bodies such as eIRG to help with the strategic long-term cloud plans for Europe.

Publications

Åke Edlund, Maarten Koopmans, Zeeshan Ali Shah, Ilja Livenson, Frederik Orellana, Jukka Kommeri, Miika Tuisku, Pekka Lehtovuori, Klaus Marius Hansen, Helmut Neukirchen, Ebba Þóra Hvannberg.
Practical Cloud Evaluation from a Nordic eScience User Perspective. VTDC11 – The 5th International Workshop on Virtualization Technologies in Distributed Computing held in conjunction with the 20th International ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing San Jose, California, June 8-11, 2011, DOI: 10.1145/1996121.1996129, ACM New York, NY, USA. pp. 29-37.
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Åke Edlund, Maarten Koopmans, Zeeshan Ali Shah, Ilja Livenson, Frederik Orellana, Jukka Kommeri, Miika Tuisku, Pekka Lehtovuori, Klaus Marius Hansen, Helmut Neukirchen, Ebba Þóra Hvannberg.
NEON – Northern Europe Cloud Computing Final Report. Final report of NDGF (Nordic DataGrid Facility) project NEON – Northern Europe Cloud Computing, 17. December 2010.
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