Storage exchange: a global trading platform for storage services

  • Authors:
  • Martin Placek;Rajkumar Buyya

  • Affiliations:
  • Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory and NICTA Victoria Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Australia;Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory and NICTA Victoria Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Australia

  • Venue:
  • Euro-Par'06 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Parallel Processing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The Storage Exchange (SX) is a new platform allowing storage to be treated as a tradeable resource. Organisations with varying storage requirements can use the SX platform to trade and exchange storage services. Organisations have the ability to federate their storage, be-it dedicated or scavenged and advertise it to a global storage market. In this paper we discuss the high level architecture employed by our platform and investigate a sealed Double Auction market model. We implement and experiment the following clearing algorithms: maximise surplus, optimise utilisation and an efficient combination of both.