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Open Cloud Consortium releases 'Tukey' integrated set of cloud services

Robert Grossman | Open Cloud Consortium | April 4, 2012

The Open Cloud Consortium (OCC) announced the beta release of Tukey, an integrated set of cloud services designed specifically to enable scientific researchers to manage, analyze and make discoveries with big data. The integrated services include: hosting large public scientific datasets; standard installations of the open source OpenStack and Eucalyptus systems.

Tukey provides an instant on demand computing infrastructure; standard installations of the open source Hadoop system for processing big data; standard installations of the UDT protocol for transporting large datasets; authentication with Shibboleth; and a variety of domain specific applications. The beta version of Tukey is being used by several of the OCC Open Science Data Cloud research projects, e.g. Matsu Project, Bionimbus, etc.
 

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by Peter Groen on April 5, 2012 - 8:17am #

Is there a link to Tukey?

While I found the announcement to be very interesting, I was unable to find a link to a specific web site/page for the software product/project. There is a link to the announcement, but that's all I found. Does anyone know where the link is? If you do, please share it with us.