The research infrastructure available for the project is presented at https://erris.gov.ro/AII—UPB. The service name is: Cloud computing and service development laboratory (CCSD)

Service description: The cloud laboratory is based on IBM CloudBurst 2.1 platform and offers cloud manufacturing services, support for developing virtualized test infrastructures for research, a service science portal used by the academic community, preconfigured virtual machines (based on windows or Linux), e-learning and videoconference services. The system supports from 460 virtual machines (VM) with 4GB of RAM and 60GB of HDD, up to 1K VM’s. Also the system is integrated with the Digital Transformation of Manufacturing laboratory and allows accessing hardware resources (robots, industrial cameras) from this laboratory remotely in internet. See: http://sske.cloud.upb.ro/sskemw/index.php/Cloud@UPB. Main interests of the CCSD laboratory: Cloud manufacturing, Value chain and software services.

Available equipment:

  • IBM CloudBurst 2.1 system (460 VM’s capacity)
  • 42U Rack
  • 2 GigaBit Switches
  • 2 x APC 10.000 KVA UPS
  • BladeCenter HS22
  • 14 Blade Servers HS22 (12 Core, 72 GB RAM)
  • xSeries 3550 Server
  • Console
  • Software: VMware ESX Server 4.1, VMware VCenter 4.1, IBM TSAM 7.2, Windows 2008 Server
  • VM OS Licenses: Windows XP Professional x86, x64, Windows 2003 Server R2 Enterprise Edition x64, Windows 7 Enterprise x86, x64
  • Emerson 18.000 KVA Cooling System

The infrastructure will be extended by four workstations used for application development and two WiFi access points.