Introduction

This space is for NII Research Cloud users(including who want to use).

It is used for research cloud explanation and usage procedure, information disclosure for users (manual, fault notification, etc.).
Various information on the research cloud (excluding member applications) can only be displayed by members of this space.

NII Research Cloud is a service for the inside of NII. Only NII researchers, staff, co-researchers can use it.

If you are planning to use the research cloud, or those already using it, please apply for member registration of this space

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If you have any question about the Research Cloud, please contact with following email address.

What is the Research Cloud?

The Research Cloud is a cloud service that allows you to rent out physical machines and treat them just as if they were machines in your own research laboratory segment. Because the service works by loaning out actual physical machines, it enables users to avoid problems such as virtualization overhead as with virtual machines, or reduced performance due to the sharing of computational resources with other users.

Because hardware is managed by the cloud’s administrators, there is no need to monitor or handle of disk breakdowns or memory faults. (In the event of a fault or breakdown, the administrators may halt operation of your machine or have you transfer to another machine as necessary.)


As the Reserch Cloud, there are two cloud computing system based on Openstack.

Physical machine spec seat used in Research Cloud


2nd Generation Reserch Cloud

"AIC"

3rd Generation Reserch Cloud

"ABC"

Machine

DELL C6220

and other models
(Equivalent performance)

DELL R630

CPU

Xeon E5-2670 2P/16C/32T


[RegionOne]
Xeon E5-2660 V3 2P/20C/40T

[RegionTwo]
Xeon E5-2660 V4 2P/28C/56T

Memory96GB128GB
Disk

RAID10 2.7TB 1 Volume
900GB x 4 SAS

[RegionOne]
RAID10 1.8TB 1 Volume 1TB x 4 SAS

[RegionTwo]
RAID10 5.4TB 1 Volume 2TB x 6 SAS

NIC10GbE NIC x 210GbE NIC x 2
OS

Ubuntu / CentOS

*We will update about twice a year

Ubuntu / CentOS

*We will update about twice a year