SPACEflight

From SPACE Wiki

SPACEflight lets you experience the Internet of Services! The SPACEflight live demonstrator system consists of a basic operating system plus system-integrated and preconfigured SPACE components in the form of packages which form the base of a service marketplace. It also features several scenario services with full web service descriptions and corresponding rich clients as service frontends, for Rusco and other implementations. A special service-integrated desktop environment and a cloud computing environment with more complex scenario services including value-added services and resource service slices are also present. For developers, there is a complete engineering and provisioning toolchain. In the future, more hosting technologies and cloud service options will be integrated. SPACEflight runs without any Internet connection but can set up a connection for additional features such as distributed grid computing integration.

The goal of SPACEflight is twofold: First, it allows desktop users to experience the power of the Internet of Services from a service provider or consumer perspective, or from a top-down view on a complete service ecosystem. Second, it can be used as a pure server system for rapid replication of service hosting functionality. Such a distributed setup linked to a central marketplace instance of SPACEflight is useful for running experiments and simulations.

SPACEflight in Action

A pre-installed instance of SPACEflight 1.0 beta6 can be seen and experienced in the THESEUS-Innovationszentrum in Berlin!

Find out more about the centre:

• Opening Event, June 2010
• General Information and directions
• SPACEflight demo card
• SPACEflight + SPACE flyer
• SPACEflight flyer from CeBIT 2011

We've also handed about about a dozen live DVDs and USB sticks at conferences and events.

Scientific Material and Documentation

SPACEflight comes with a short demonstrator usage manual (latest manual sources available in git here and further material here).

There's now a build tutorial available: SPACEflight/Mastering Guide

SPACEflight - A Versatile Live Demonstrator and Teaching System for Advanced Service-Oriented Technologies. J. Spillner, 21st International Crimean Conference on Microwave and Telecommunication Technology (CriMiCo/КрыМиКо), Sewastopol, Ukraine, September 12-16, 2011.

The ТЕСЛА Service Platform: Web Service Sharing based on Modular Platform Services. J. Spillner, A. Schill, FIS - Future Internet Symposium, Berlin, Germany, September 1-3, 2009.

Download/Version control

For download options (DVD image, USB image, VirtualBox image), see SPACEflight/Versions.

Version control of the build script happens through the media directory in the Git repository, with some parts coming from packaging/branding and packaging/spaceflight. See also Code Repository and Package Repository for more download resources.