High performance cloud computing using an efficient data service

Our research at the Australian National University has produced a scalable and heterogeneity-oblivious SOA middleware - ANU-SOAM - that implements a popular enterprise SOA middleware API (IBM-Platform Symphony API). Along with its compute services it provides a Data Service, which helps application programmers to develop codes that can effectively circumvent the interdependency of tasks and thereby reduce communications to ensure high performance outcomes. It is also observed that the programming model supported by the Data Service enables ANU-SOAM applications to access compute resources in a “Cloud IaaS” over high latency networks (like the Internet) with much lower overheads compared to the conventional SOA programming models.