타이틀 |
The Virtual Climate Data Server (vCDS): An iRODS-Based Data Management Software Appliance Supporting Climate Data Services and Virtualization-as-a-Service in the NASA Center for Climate Simulation |
저자 |
Schnase, John L.;; Tamkin, Glenn S.;; Ripley, W. David III;; Stong, Savannah;; Gill, Roger;; Duffy, Daniel Q. |
Keyword |
CLIMATE;; COMPUTER SYSTEMS DESIGN;; DATA MANAGEMENT;; DATA RETRIEVAL;; DATA STORAGE;; DATA SYSTEMS;; INFORMATION RESOURCES MANAGEMENT;; METADATA;; VIRTUAL MEMORY SYSTEMS |
URL |
http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20120009334 |
보고서번호 |
GSFC.CP.6025.2012 |
발행년도 |
2012 |
출처 |
NTRS (NASA Technical Report Server) |
ABSTRACT |
Scientific data services are becoming an important part of the NASA Center for Climate Simulation''s mission. Our technological response to this expanding role is built around the concept of a Virtual Climate Data Server (vCDS), repetitive provisioning, image-based deployment and distribution, and virtualization-as-a-service. The vCDS is an iRODS-based data server specialized to the needs of a particular data-centric application. We use RPM scripts to build vCDS images in our local computing environment, our local Virtual Machine Environment, NASA s Nebula Cloud Services, and Amazon''s Elastic Compute Cloud. Once provisioned into one or more of these virtualized resource classes, vCDSs can use iRODS s federation capabilities to create an integrated ecosystem of managed collections that is scalable and adaptable to changing resource requirements. This approach enables platform- or software-asa- service deployment of vCDS and allows the NCCS to offer virtualization-as-a-service: a capacity to respond in an agile way to new customer requests for data services. |