Cyclops began as research at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW). For four years it was built and refined in EU and Swiss funded projects with telcos, cloud providers and universities. After the 2017 spin-off we extended it to European supercomputing centres and validated it on two national supercomputers.
Each project added something the platform still uses today: one ledger for telco and cloud, billing for virtual network functions, academic cloud use, Swiss cloud settings and HPC monetisation.
The origin of Cyclops: one converged rating, charging and billing platform that brought telco and cloud billing together.
Refined for rating, charging and billing of virtualised network functions (VNFs).
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Further refined in joint work with Swiss universities and SWITCH, the Swiss national research and education network.
Swiss national funding
The framework was further enhanced in two Swiss nationally funded projects.
The research team took the platform out of ZHAW and continued R&D as a company.
Cyclops was extended to meter, rate and bill the use of supercomputing resources, and validated on two national supercomputing centres.
The same platform now meters and bills compute and reports energy for HPC centres and AI datacenters.