Related Projects & Initiatives

CONTRAIL - Open Computing Infrastructures for Elastic Services

The goal of the Contrail project is to design, implement, evaluate and promote an open source system in which resources that belong to different operators are integrated into a single homogeneous Federated Cloud that users can access seamlessly. Contrail will vertically integrate an open-source distributed operating system for autonomous resource management in Infrastructure-as-a-Service environments, and high level services and runtime environments as foundations for Platform-as-a-Service.

Contrail will leverage the open source XtreemOS Operating System, a variant of Linux developed in the successful XtreemOS European integrated project and which was designed for large scale dynamic infrastructures.

XtreemOS integrates services for data, application, security and community management that can be adapted to provide a unified solution for building private, public and federated Cloud infrastructures. Contrail has core virtualization technology integrated with its high-level services and its Cloud management facilities. This unique approach of covering "the whole Cloud", from the core infrastructure, via federation mechanisms, to management services, enables the construction of transparent, trusted and reliable Cloud platforms with operations governed by service level agreements.