From volunteer to cloud computing: cloud@home

Authors:
Vincenzo D. Cunsolo;Salvatore Distefano;Antonio Puliafito;Marco Scarpa
Affiliations:
University of Messina, Messina, Italy;University of Messina, Messina, Italy;University of Messina, Messina, Italy;University of Messina, Messina, Italy
Venue:
Proceedings of the 7th ACM international conference on Computing frontiers
Year:
2010

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Abstract

Even though mainly commercial Cloud solutions have been implemented so far, the Cloud computing approach is quickly and widely spreading in open contexts such as scientific and academic communities. Two main research directions can be identified in such context: to provide an open Cloud infrastructure able to share resources to the community; and to implement an interoperable framework, allowing commercial and open Cloud infrastructures to interact. In this paper we present the Cloud@Home paradigm as an effective solution to the problem of building open and interoperable Clouds. In this new paradigm, users' hosts are not passive interface to Cloud services anymore, but they can interact (for free or by charge) with other Clouds, that therefore must be able to interoperate.