The works in CYCLONE is organized into seven work packages, all active in the reporting period.
The Use Case work package (WP3) has provided inputs to the development work packages (WP4-5-6) focused on the various aspects of cloud federation and all the technical WPs have triggered design and deployment activities in WP7 for CYCLONE Testbed.
The technical and administrative management (WP1) has ensured that the whole agile development process could run smoothly, whilst the Dissemination & Communication work package (WP2) has guaranteed that proper communication of results achieved so far to the scientific community.
All the workpackages contributed to the project objectives, producing the expected results for the period in terms of design artifacts, software components, use-cases, and testbed infrastructure.
Key results of the period are briefly summarized in the following
• Development of a CYCLONE use cases portal.
• Deployment, test and validation of 2 Energy use cases
• Deployment, testing and validation of 2 Bioinformatics use case
• Implementation of CYCLONE Federation Provider based on TRESOR federated identity system to build the federated authentication. The CYCLONE Federation Provider is integrated with eduGAIN and offers an easy-to-use, standards-based approach to use federated identities in the CYCLONE use cases.
• Worked on integrating the Trusted Cloud Transfer Protocol (TCTP) into the CYCLONE environment to provide end-to-end security for cloud applications.
• Developing model and protocol for trust configuration and management in distributed virtualised cloud based environment
• Initial design and implementation of Trust bootstrapping protocol together with relevant auxiliary services for managing context and security tokens.
• Designed the abstraction networking resource composition allocation model for multi-cloud applications
• Implementation of 7 key network services in OpenNaaS including Firewalling, VPN and Load Balancer.
• Definition, implementation, set up, and validation of the OpenNaaS CNSMO
• Definition of the application description and its evolution towards the CIMI standard.
• Definition and implementation of interfaces to be used for Matchmaking and Brokering.
• Design of the prototype interfaces to be used and that allow multiple implementations of a "placement service" to be used.
• Implementation of the placement API within the SlipStream Community Edition, the Service Catalog in the Enterprise Edition and theier integrationwith OpenNaaS API
• Testing and integration of Nuv.la into TUB developments
• Design and setup of CYCLONE testbed, its features and services, including integration via Nuvla
• 15 published papers in leading conferences on Cloud computing , 2 under revision
• Creation of the CYCLONE website
http://www.cyclone-project.eu/(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie) social media accounts at LinkedIn, Twitter, using community collaborative platform Slack for problem oriented discussions and group blogging.
• Delivered a set of project presentations, tutorials, internal and external trainings on the project related technologies and products have been provided in the first year at different research and industry events, conferences, technical events, and concertation meetings.
• Established cooperative and coordinating contacts with H2020 cloud projects (part of EC Unit E2 Software Services and Cloud) as well as other projects, namely GEANT4 and ELIXIR. In particular, the joint network session on “Cloud SWOT” at the ICT2015 event in Lisbon on 22nd November 2015 was organised in cooperation with the SWITCH project.
• Technical sponsoring for two annual workshops IEEE NetCloud (fall 2015) and Intercloud (spring 2015 and 2016).
