South African National Bioinformatics Institute / Alan Christoffels South African National Bioinformatics Institute University / University of Cape Town / I NTRODUCTION The South African National Bioinformatics Institute / / /
IndustryTerm
mission critical server infrastructure / performance computing / web applications / authentication server / open source cloud computing software / physical hardware / performance computing nodes / cloud computing platform / virtual machine infrastructure / virtual networks / web-based application servers / cloud management software / physical server infrastructure / open source software / cloud computing technology / software provisioning system / performance computing environments / public cloud services / directory server / web servers / cloud infrastructure / public computing clouds / cloud operator / research / command line tools / scientific workflow systems / open source solution / virtualization technologies / private cloud solution / grid computing / cloud computing solutions / rack server / web server / open source cloud computing solutions / computing / cloud computing environment / scientific computing clouds / Internet firewall / blade server infrastructure / personalised computing / cloud computing / configuration management server / /
NaturalFeature
Western Cape / /
OperatingSystem
VMs / Linux / Ubuntu / CentOS / /
Organization
University of Cape Town / University of the Western Cape / South African National Bioinformatics Institute / University of the Western Cape Computer Science / /
Person
Alan Christoffels / Peter van Heusden / Alan Christoffels South / / /
Position
DST/NRF Research Chair / Sun Grid Engine scheduler / OpenNebula cloud controller / cloud controller / director / manager of computer systems / long@sanbi.ac.za and alan@sanbi.ac.za Corresponding author / /
Product
Puppet server / Puppet / /
ProgrammingLanguage
Python / /
Technology
genomics / virtual machine / RAM / bioinformatics / Linux / operating system / virtualization technologies / Storage Area Network / firewall / SAN / cloud computing technology / iSCSI / web server / gigabit Ethernet / /
1 An OpenNebula-based cloud computing environment for bioinformatics Peter van Heusden, Long Yi and Alan Christoffels South African National Bioinformatics Institute