KASKADA Platform in Cloud Environment

KASKADA is a computing platform for developing and running services and applications oriented to multimedia processing and data streaming. A solution for serving the platform in the PaaS model is presented. The paper briefly describes the software for creating the private cloud solutions and the components designed and implemented to enable hosting the platform in the cloud environment based on the OpenStack software. The cloud has been deployed to a supercomputer working in C2 NIWA at the Gdansk University of Technology. This article assumes the reader’s basic knowledge of the KASKADA platform.