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Applying for Open Access
Requests for free access will be evaluated on a case-bycase basis considering business impact, infrastructure use and quality criteria.

launching open access P.1 what you get from open access P.2 new software release P.2

BonFIRE Cloud Experimentation Facility Open Now

Following provided two successful Open Calls and which SMEs launch. BonFIRE allows users to evaluate the effects of converged service and network infrastructures, assess the socio-economic impact of new Cloud services, combine Cloud computing and data storage with novel networking scenarios. researchers, developers

To apply for Open Access, please fill in the Word document template with your proposal, convert to a PDF and submit along with some additional information at: http://portal.bonfireproject.eu/en/public/proposeexperiment/

access to the BonFIRE Cloud Infrastructures, it is now possible to apply for running experiments as part of our Open Access initiative. This is your chance to get involved and test your innovative ideas for free! While there are many instances of Cloud providers offering free Cloud infrastructure for limited periods

Essentially, BonFIRE enables developers to research new, faster, cheaper or more flexible ways of running applications. In Open Access users will have access to a multi-site Cloud facility for applications, services and systems experimentation:

For more information, email to bonfire@bonfire-project.eu or visit the project website on http://www.bonfire-project.eu

of time for start-ups, Open Access represents a different approach. Designed for developers in the pre-production testing phase, and organizations involved in collaborative research, BonFIRE

large-scale, heterogeneous and virtualised compute, storage and networking resources

provides access to large-scale compute, storage and networking resources with high levels of control and observability to test your cloud application. By making the BonFIRE testbed available, the EU is encouraging European SMEs to launch new Cloud services and become a part of a multi-billion euro market without having to invest in the infrastructure. According to Josep Martrat, the BonFIRE project director Commercial testing services are rare and they cannot offer the detailed level of analysis that BonFIRE offers, enabling businesses to perfect the performance prior to

full control of your resource deployment in-depth monitoring and logging of physical and virtual resources advanced Cloud and network features ease of use for experimentation

More information about the BonFIRE features at: http://doc.bonfireproject.eu/R3.1/overview/overview-features.html

The BonFIRE Project Issue 04 Feb 2013

Open Access February 2013

The BonFIRE Open Access for experimentation on advanced technologies in distributed computing, scenarios with cross-cutting aspects with networks

Open Access What you need to know

Open Access in BonFIRE starts from February 2013. Heres the information about available resources!

Who can apply? Commercial and academic Applications for Open Access will be How many experiments? One experiment evaluated within five working days after arrival. There are some constraints that all applications need to follow: How much money? No funding provided How long? Experiment duration up to four months experimentation over the public internet and controlled emulated network scenarios. When? Rolling call open 05/02/2013 Maximum 40-50 virtual cores at peak time. Examples of VM instantiation scenarios as follows: Deadline: Open Access facility is available until November 2013 b) Call identifier: BonFIRE-Open- Access experiments MB RAM). approx. 50 medium VMs (medium = 1 VM with 1 core a) approx. 100 lite VMs (lite = 1 VM with or of core and 256 e) storage). 1 public IP (the rest on the BonFIRE WAN). Period for experimentation: up to 4 months (access). Addressing multi-cloud d) c) and 1 GB RAM). approx. 15 large VMs (large = 1 VM with 4 cores and 2 GB RAM). Maximum 250 GB storage (includes VM OS and additional DATABLOCK

BonFIRE 3.1 Released

For more information, email to bonfire@bonfire-project.eu or visit the project website on http://www.bonfire-project.eu

BonFIRE version 3.1 has been released, bringing many new features and

improvements to experimenters.

The main additions to this release are: Amazon Interconnection Accounting Improved Elasticity as a Service Improved Groups Functionality Cells and OpenNebula upgrades Support for Open Access

2013 The University of Southampton IT Innovation Centre, The University of Edinburgh, ATOS Origin and other members of the BonFIRE consortium