The ability to aggregate, share, and analyze important large data sets while optimizing time to science has become essential to support multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional data-driven discovery. Cornell University and its partners, the University at Buffalo and the University of California, Santa Barbara, created a federated cloud in New York State and California.
Each site operated standard cloud infrastructure components augmented with DIBBs storage assets including data analysis servers, scalable storage, and a Globus file transfer and sharing endpoint.
This project served as an important model for campus cyberinfrastructure that other institutions can follow providing flexibility in support of multi-discipline scientific workflows, elasticity by sharing resources, and an allocation model that provides a fair exchange mechanism for resource access between and across multiple institutions.
Visit the NSF Project Website for information on the 2015-2021 Aristotle Cloud Federation DIBBs Project including the Project Abstract, 48 Publications produced as the result of the research, and the Project Outcomes Report. In addition, see the HPCwire story that summarizes our project.
The project website (federatedcloud.org) was retired September 2026. View assorted screenshots from that site.
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The Aristotle Cloud Federation was supported by NSF grant
ACI-1541215 and the Cornell University CAC
in partnership with the University at Buffalo CCR and the University of California, Santa Barbara Department of Computer Science.
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