Cloud Computing

By Bastian Schäffer, 2008

Cloud Computing is an emerging trend in the mainstream IT world. 52°North has worked extensively in this field in order to combine classical Geospatial Web Services with this new Paradigm. Scalability was a prime goal here for mastering massive requests and peak loads. The following figure shows the response time on a local machine:

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Web Geoprocessing Service (WPS) in the Cloud

The 52°North WPS was successfully installed out-of-the box on the following public cloud environments:
  • Amazon Web Services (AMI available on request, see this {{{https://52north.org/download/Geoprocessing/documents/aws_cloud_set_up_guide_v1.0.pdf}tutorial}})
  • Google App Engine
and the following private/hybrid cloud environments:
  • Eucalyptus
A practical example can be seen in the INSPIRE compliant Coordinate Transformation Service depicted in the following figure:

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The response time could be held nearly constant even during peakloads as shown in the figure below.

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Web Map Service in the Cloud

Web Map Services (WMS) often have to deal with a large number of requests. In order to handle peak loads, a solution was created which utilizes a WMS (Geoserver) in a cloud environment (public cloud: Amazon, private cloud: Eucalyptus).

The following figure shows OSM streetdata for Germany served by a WMS in the cloud. The rendering of tiles could be massively improved and the response time even during peak load held constant.

wms.jpg

Hybrid Cloud

As a third opton, we provide solutions for a hybrid cloud by “cloudifying” local IT resources to private clouds and using public clouds (such as Amazon Web Services) for peak loads. A reference architecture entirely composed of open-source components was created as depicted in the figure below.

hybrid_architecture.jpg

Our own Cloud Management software for monitoring and ruleset defining is available as open-source in our repository.

A constant response time was reached even during peak loads.

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For more information, please contact: Bastian Schäffer b.schaeffer @ 52north.org

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  • Topic created by: DanielNuest
  • Topic created on: 2013-03-20
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Topic revision: r2 - 28 Jan 2014, EikeJuerrens
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