1. Vignesh Ravindran Sankarbala Manoharan

2. Infrastructure As A Service (IAAS) is a model that is used to deliver a platform virtualization environment with the usual storage space and networking capabilities These services are provided by an organization which is responsible for hosting the service and maintaining it while the client pays on a per use basis OpenStack Compute: Part of OpenStack project that is designed to provision and manage large networks of virtual machines, creating a scalable cloud computing platform.

3. To prepare a survey on a popular Cloud Infrastructure service – Openstack Compute Openstack is an open source software started by Rackspace and NASA As developed, it had a modular architecture consisting of three major components Compute Object Storage Image Service

7. OS Compute is part of the openstack project Provides tools to work with a cloud environment and perform tasks like running instances controlling access through user levels It is ‘virtualization free’ meaning that it does not come with virtualization software but defines drivers that work with existing mechanisms

8. Control is assigned based on the role of the user Each user must be associated with at least one project and there can be only one administrator Available roles being Admin ITSec ProjectManager NetAdmin Developer Projects form a main organizational structure and are isolated from other projects Each project has certain quota constraints to limit availability for other projects

9. Mainly consists of components namely API server Object Store Auth Manager Volume Controller Network Controller Scheduler Communication via message passing Most components are housed in the cloud controller node Communication via HTTP messages or any AMQP Multiple copies of data stored in a distributed environment so no information is shared Updates are made to the entire distributed store using atomic transactions

10. Accustom ourselves to various configuration settings possible Set up a private cloud using a private LAN to test installation of the service in various configurations Work with OS instances on the FG testbed Run data intensive applications on the two environments and compare performances