OpenStack Cloud Deployment for Scientific Applications

Cloud computing technology in recent years has seen rapid growth with a number of institutions and organizations adopting it, for its scalable, extensible and rapidly available services. Many scientific institutions over the years have been executing high performance jobs on traditional high-performance computing (HPC) clusters, but the ever-increasing use of resources calls for optimizing the existing infrastructure to deliver better ubiquitous services. This paper presents the implementation of OpenStack cloud computing platform for executing scientific applications at IISER, Pune. This platform additionally can be tailored to serve the institute's need and requirements. The paper also analyses and discusses the effectiveness of our deployment method, concluding with some feasible scenarios that are achievable to make the cloud scalable and heterogeneous.