Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory
CLOUDS is Melbourne University's new initiative in Cloud Computing for conducting fundamental research on the design and development of market-oriented Cloud platforms for a range of applications.
The Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory is a software research and development group within the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
The CLOUDS Lab is actively engaged in the design and development of next-generation computing systems and applications that aggregate or lease services of distributed resources depending on their availability, capability, performance, cost, and users' quality-of-service requirements.
The CLOUDS Lab, as one of the world leaders in developing innovative and utility-oriented distributed computing systems and technologies, is realising its vision through two of its flagship projects: Gridbus and Cloudbus.
The Gridbus Project is engaged in the creation of open-source specifications, architecture and a reference Grid toolkit implementation of service-oriented grid computing technologies for e-Science/e-Research applications.
The Cloudbus Project is focused on developing innovative PaaS (Platform as a Service) technologies for Cloud Computing. The current developments include: (i) Aneka, a software system for providing PaaS within private or public Clouds and supporting market-oriented resource management, (ii) internetworking of Clouds for dynamic creation of federated computing environments for scaling of elastic applications, (iii) creation of 3rd party Cloud brokering services for content delivery network and e-Science applications and their deployment on capabilities of IaaS providers such as Amazon and Nirvanix along with Grid mashups, and (iv) CloudSim supporting modelling and simulation of Clouds for performance studies.
Our research and innovation sponsors include: Australian Research Council, Storage Technology Corporation, Sun Microsystems, VPAC, IBM, and Singapore Computer Systems.
- More information is available on the CLOUDS website