OpenDC
Collaborative Datacenter Simulation and Exploration for Everybody
The datacenter (DC) industry...
- Is worth over $15 bn, and growing
- Has many hard-to-grasp concepts
- Needs to become accessible to many
OpenDC provides...
- Collaborative online DC modeling
- Diverse and effective DC simulation
- Exploratory DC performance feedback
Stakeholders
Managers
Seeing is deciding
Sales
Demo concepts
DevOps
Develop & tune
Researchers
Understand & design
Students
Grasp complex concepts
Datacenter Modeling
Collaboratively...
- Model DC layout, and room locations and types
- Place racks in rooms and nodes in racks
- Add real-world CPU, GPU, memory, storage and network units to each node
- Select from diverse scheduling policies
Mockup of the datacenter construction interface
Datacenter Simulation
Working with OpenDC:
- Seamlessly switch between construction and simulation modes
- Choose one of several predefined workloads (Big Data, Bag of Tasks, Hadoop, etc.)
- Play, pause, and skip around the informative simulation timeline
- Visualize and demo live
Mockup of the datacenter simulation interface at room level
Key features:
- Live load or power use metrics on building, room, and rack levels
- Diverse scenarios from common operation to model-based failures
- Retrospective performance review of datacenter simulations
- Compare resource management practices
Mockup of the same simulation at node level
Technologies
Browser
HTML5 canvas, CreateJS, TypeScript, SocketIO
Web Server
Python, Flask, FlaskSocketIO, OpenAPI
Database
SQLite
Simulator
C++
The Team
Prof. dr. ir. Alexandru Iosup
Project Lead
Leon Overweel
Project Manager and Software Engineer responsible for the web server, database, and
API
specification
Georgios Andreadis
Software Engineer responsible for the frontend web application and splash page
Matthijs Bijman
Software Engineer responsible for the datacenter simulator
