The CLOUDS Lab Research Probes
The key objective of the CLOUDS Lab is to develop fundamental, next-generation cloud and grid technologies that support a true utility-driven service-oriented computing. Within CLOUDS Lab, the following research probes are being explored:
Cloud Computing
Energy-Efficient Computing
Grid Economy and Scheduling
- Economy Grid: the next-generation is in progress.
Datagridbus.org/alchemi Grid Brokering and Scheduling
Workflow Scheduling and Grid Economy
Cooperative Coupling of Clusters
Service Level Agreements (SLA)-based Resource Allocation System
.NET Based Grid Computing
Grid Market Directory and Service Publication
- GMD and our own public GMD service
Grid Simulation (GridSim)
- GridSim Toolkit for modelling and simulation of scheduling for parallel and distributed systems
Resource Usage Accounting
Meta Search Engine and Web Services
- Guided Google paper, Software (war file and source code), and Search the Web Using our Guided Google
Web-based Grid Portals
- G-monitor paper, Software: source code, and Use pre-deployed Gmonitor portal with Nimrod-G
- Portlets based Grid Portal for Gridbus Broker
- Niggle Search: Niggle
Gridscape II: A Customisable and Pluggable Grid Monitoring Portal and its Integration with Google Maps
- Gridscape II. An example portal using Gridscape II (user/pass:gridscape/gridscape).
- The original Gridscape. An example portal generated using Gridscape
