Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/CCGrid.2012.14
