Minicloud: The FREE OpenPower Cloud by Unicamp

• Cláudio dos Santos Júnior UNICAMP
• Lucas Wanner UNICAMP
• Sandro Rigo UNICAMP

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/eradsp.2021.16696

Abstract

Minicloud is a student-managed, free cloud service based on the IBM POWER architecture. The service is used by a variety of users worldwide for purposes ranging from building, porting, and testing Power systems and soft- ware and to conduct performance evaluation and academic studies. The Mini- cloud infrastructure is based on OpenStack and is managed and maintained by a team of undergrad students. This paper presents an overview of Minicloud, its configuration and available services, user profiles, and selected use cases.

Keywords: Computers and Processors architectures, Clouds, Grids, Clusters and Peer-to-Peer Computing, Virtualization

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