What is DiCloud?

DiCloud is a testbed that allows users to experiment with Amazon Web Service cloud resources in the context of the National Science Foundation\'s Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) project. DiCloud interfaces with a prototype GENI control framework. More information about the DiCloud project is available here.

How does DiCloud work?

DiCloud gives the user access to the following resources:

Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances: servers with local storage that are accessible through the Internet via a public IP address and from other EC2 instances via a local private IP address.
Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets: a bucket is a storage space varying from 1 byte to 5 GB that can store objects. The objects can only be accessed through a put/get interface.
Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volumes: EBS is a Network Attach Storage (NAS) that can be mounted and accessed by only one EC2 instance at a time. Any filesystem can be created on an EBS volume.

A limited budget is allocated for the resources that are monitored in real time using Amazon CloudWatch. Once the allocated budget has expired, resources are automatically revoked and experiments are stopped until further funding is available.

How do I get an account?

Send an email to dicloud@cs.umass.edu to request an account.

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