General Information about Nephelae

Nephelae is a cloud computing cluster running Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS and the latests stable release of the OpenStack (Icehouse).

Topology setup

Nephelae is currently consisted of six servers.

Currently configured topology puts users facing OpenStack Dashboard. Dashboard communicates with Nova Cloud Controller (on one server), while another back-end server is running Nova Network Controller for network control. The other servers are used for VM hosting (Nova Compute).

 

Nephelae's hardware

  Nephelae's Hardware Specifications 

	CPU Model	CPUs	Total Cores	Total RAM (GB)	Storage Capacity (TB)
Nova Cloud Controller  OpenStack Dashboard	E5620 @2.40Ghz	2	16	72	1.6
Nova Network Controller	E5620 @2.40Ghz	2	16	72	1.6
Nova Compute 1	E5620 @2.40Ghz	2	16	72	1.6
Nova Compute 2	X5650 @2.67Ghz	2	24	72	1.6
Nova Compute 3	X5650 @2.67Ghz	2	24	72	1.6
Nova Compute 4	X5650 @2.67Ghz	2	24	72	1.6
Nova Compute 5	X5690 @3.47GHz	2	24	80	0.4
Nova Compute 6	E52680v3 @2.5 GHz	2	48	173	6
Total		16	192	685 GB	16.0 TB

  

Time Period	Instances	RAM MB - Hours	CPU Hours	Disk GB - Hours
2013-01-01 - 2013-12-31	194	1262041775.22	514630.34	3652489.77
2014-01-01 - 2014-04-14	50	631989054.54	349108.80	3317401.71

Nephelae cloud infrastructure is funded by the  University of Cyprus