Using Cloud Computing to Share Curiosity’s Landing with the World

Jonathan ChiangIT Chief Engineer

Agenda

Comparison with Mars Exploration Rovers

Re-engineered for the Cloud

Requirements for Curiosity Landing

What is the Cloud to JPL?

What is the Cloud to JPL?

o The cloud is a natural extension of our own data centers

o The cloud can be as secure or more secure than some of our own data centers

o The landscape is changing –we continuously monitor new cloud providers, technologies and services

Outreach for the Curiosity Landing

Requirements for sharing the landing with the world

A robust Content Distribution Network (CDN)

Scalability and elasticity of resources

High availability and resiliency

Why Amazon Web Services?

CloudFront - Content Delivery Network

EC2 – Elastic Compute Cloud

S3 – Simple Storage Service

EBS – Elastic Block Storage

RDS – Relational Database Service

Route53 – Dynamic DNS

Re-engineered for the Cloud

Legacy System

Cloud System

Comparison with MER

MER, 0.7

MSL, 150 MER, 3

1

MSL, 154

Peak Throughput (Gbps)

Total Data Served (TB)

Comparison with MER

MSL MER Increase

Total Data Served (TB) 154 31 5x

Streaming 123 -

Mars Sites 9 -

Eyes on the Solar System 22 -

Peak request rate / sec80

Peak throughput (Gbps)150 0.7 214x

Peak hits per minute (M) 8

Peak hits per hour (M)50

Questions?

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