Building an on-demand virtual computing market in non-commercial communities

  • Authors:
  • Matthias Steinbauer;Ismail Khalil;Gabriele Kotsis

  • Affiliations:
  • Kepler University Linz, Linz, Austria;Kepler University Linz, Linz, Austria;Kepler University Linz, Linz, Austria

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

This work describes a system that enables non-commercial communities, e.g. students and researchers, to deploy pre-configured clusters of virtual machines on arbritary cloud computing stacks implementing the Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI). As a key enabling technology, the virtualization and provisioning available in such infrastructure as a service clouds is leveraged in order to instantiate and setup clusters on a user's demand. A simple, web-based market system is provided as the user interface. It allows the browsing, configuring and launching of different clusters of appliances. Running virtual machines are accessible directly from the market via integrated remote desktop software.