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The Cumulus Project: Build a Scientific Cloud for a Data Center Lizhe Wang, Jie Tao, Marcel Kunze, Dharminder Rattu Steinbuch Centre for Computing (SCC), Research Center Karlsruhe (FZK) Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany Alvaro Canales Castellanos Department of Computer Science, University Karlsruhe (TH) 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany Abstract Cloud computing, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud [21], IBM’s Blue Cloud [17], scientific Cloud projects such as Cloud computing emerges as a new computing paradigm Nimbus [26] and Stratus [34], and OpenNEbula [29]. HP, which aims to provide reliable, customized and QoS guar- Intel Corporation and Yahoo! Inc. recently announced anteed dynamic computing environments for end-users. the creation of a global, multi-data center, open source This paper reviews our early experience of Cloud comput- Cloud computing test bed for industry, research and edu- ing based on the Cumulus project for data centers. In this cation [12, 23]. paper, we introduce the Cumulus project with its various In this paper we present the Cumulus Cloud computing aspects, such as testbed, infrastructure, middleware and ap- project. The Cumulus project is intended to built a scientific plication models. cloud for data centers by merging existing Grid infrastruc- tures with new Cloud technologies. This paper discusses