vCloud at Carnegie Mellon
http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/vCloud/

In a large-scale collaboration, they are standing up and operating a state-of-the-art cloud based on VMware software and HP hardware (with Intel processors and Samsung DRAM and SSDs) implementing the vCloud APIs. The PDL vCloud will replace a multitude of single-purpose clusters, managed and underutilized by individual groups, with an IaaS private cloud for class projects, simulations, data analyses, and cluster and data-intensive computing activities. Moreover, it is an invaluable resource for studying the usage patterns and demands placed on clouds in academic settings, whose workloads we think will be representative of analytics-heavy non-academic activities. We are deeply instrumenting the infrastructure, at various levels and in cooperation with VMware and HP experts, working with different groups to understand their specific requirements, and exploring/developing automation approaches tuned to the challenging characteristics of not-for-profit academic environments. This will be added to Grid, Distributed and Cloud Resources Subject Tracer™.