BonFIRE: A Multi-cloud Test Facility for Internet of Services Experimentation

Abstract

Abstract. BonFIRE offers a Future Internet, multi-site, cloud testbed, targeted at the Internet of Services community, that supports large scale testing of applications, services and systems over multiple, geographically distributed, heterogeneous cloud testbeds. The aim of BonFIRE is to provide an infrastructure that gives experimenters the ability to control and monitor the execution of their experiments to a degree that is not found in traditional cloud facilities. The BonFIRE architecture has been designed to support key functionalities such as: resource management; monitoring of virtual and physical infrastructure metrics; elasticity; single document experiment descriptions; and scheduling. As for January 2012 BonFIRE release 2 is operational, supporting seven pilot experiments. Future releases will enhance the offering, including the interconnecting with networking facilities to provide access to routers, switches and bandwidth-on-demand systems. BonFIRE will be open for general use late 2012.

Experiences monitoring and managing QoS using SDN on testbeds supporting different innovation stages

“…The network switch topology is controlled by a SDN (typically via Floodlight 4 Openflow controller). A packet sniffer (e.g.…”

“…For innovators there are experimental testbeds such as the OFELIA experimental facility [6]. For early adopters and the early majority there are pre-commercial facilities such as BonFIRE [4] and federated testbeds made up of FIWARE Lab instances created under the XIFI project [5]. For early majority and late majority there are commercial cloud providers such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon EC2…”

Predicting Application Performance for Multi-vendor Clouds Using Dwarf Benchmarks

“…We have conducted this investigation as part of an experiment in the BonFIRE project [11], which o ers a multi-site testbed of heterogeneous Cloud resources The BonFIRE testbeds use a common labelling of small, medium, large, etc., which have de ned number of cores and RAM size. However, the 100% of the CPU is given, which means the performance of resources with the same label can vary signi cantly between the testbeds due to heterogeneous hardware [3].…”

Web Information Systems Engineering - WISE 2012

“…We have conducted this investigation as part of an experiment in the BonFIRE project [11], which oers a multi-site testbed of heterogeneous Cloud resources The BonFIRE testbeds use a common labelling of small, medium, large, etc., which have dened number of cores and RAM size. However, the 100% of the CPU is given, which means the performance of resources with the same label can vary signicantly between the testbeds due to heterogeneous hardware [3].…”