Perspectives of UnaCloud: An Opportunistic Cloud Computing Solution for Facilitating Research

Author

Osorio, Juan D. ; Castro, Harold ; Brasileiro, Francisco

Author_Institution

Dept. of Syst. & Comput. Eng., Commun. & Inf. Technol. Group (COMIT), Univ. de los Andes Carrera, Bogota, Colombia

fYear

2012

fDate

13-16 May 2012

Firstpage

717

Lastpage

718

Abstract

This paper presents UnaCloud, an opportunistic Infraestructure as a Service implementation oriented to academic and research institutions, where the IaaS model is supported through the opportunistic use of idle computing resources available in the institution campus, providing researchers with significant and low cost computing capabilities. Also presented are the existing perspectives for current and future work on this project, related work about different concepts of opportunistic or volunteer cloud computing, and the significance and potential impact of this project in the regional research community.

Keywords

cloud computing; educational institutions; IaaS model; UnaCloud perspectives; academic institutions; infrastructure as a service implementation; institution campus; opportunistic cloud computing solution; regional research community; research facilitation; research institutions; volunteer cloud computing; Business; Cloud computing; Communities; Computational modeling; Computers; Educational institutions; Measurement; cloud computing; desktop grid; infrastructure as a service; opportunistic computing; unacloud;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid), 2012 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Ottawa, ON

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1395-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCGrid.2012.14

Filename

6217498