Center for Computational Research

  Lake Effect is a subscription-based Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS) cloud that provides root level access to virtual servers and storage on de...

  Lake Effect Cloud Accounting The Lake Effect cloud allows the user to start, stop, and terminate system virtual machines. Since starting...

Permitted Usage: The UB CCR Lake Effect cloud computing platform is designed for UB's faculty and staff researchers and their students.  Just as with ...

Cloud Support: Lake Effect is a subscription-based Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud that provides root level access to virtual servers and storage ...

Once you've requested and been granted an account on the Lake Effect cloud, you will be able to login in to the web console.  Your username and passwor...

Each instance is a virtual machine (VM) in the cloud.  An instance type defines the number of CPUs, the size of memory, and the size of storage that is giv...

What is an image? An image is a copy of an operating system that you will launch to run in the cloud.  Currently, CCR supports several Linux operating s...

Key pairs are SSH credentials which are injected into images when they are launched.  Creating a new key pair in Openstack registers the public key and down...

NOTE:  Before you can launch and login to instances, you must have setup a key pair.  Instructions for creating a key pair and managing openstack credential...

Security groups are an important concept to understand in Openstack.  Security groups define a set of IP filter rules that determine how network traffic flo...