Cloudbus: Melbourne Cloud Computing Initiative
Introduction
With the significant advances in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) over the last half century, there is an increasingly perceived vision that computing will one day be the 5th utility (after water, electricity, gas, and telephony). This computing utility, like all other four existing utilities, will provide the basic level of computing service that is considered essential to meet the everyday needs of the general community. To deliver this vision, a number of computing paradigms have been proposed, of which the latest one is known as Cloud computing. Cloud computing aims to enable the dynamic creation of next-generation Data Centers by assembling services of networked Virtual Machines so that users are able to access applications from anywhere in the world on demand.
Cloudbus is a new Melbourne's initiative in Cloud Computing for conducting fundamental research on the design and development of different market-oriented Cloud platforms for a range of applications. Melbourne CLOUDS Lab projects/programs in Cloud Computing include:
- Aneka: A cloud platform supporting multiple programing models in a .NET-based environement
- OpenPEX: Virtual Machines Resource provisioning and execution system
- MetaCDN: Harnessing storage cloud for building content delivery networks
- CloudSim: A toolkit for modeling and simulation of Cloud Computing environments.
- Cloud Federation and InterClouds: Supporting Application Scaling across multiple Data Centers
- Cloud Broker: Scheduling Applications across multiple Cloud Service Providers
Publications - Papers
- Rajkumar Buyya, Chee Shin Yeo, and Srikumar Venugopal, Market-Oriented Cloud Computing: Vision, Hype, and Reality for Delivering IT Services as Computing Utilities, Keynote Paper, Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2008, IEEE CS Press, Los Alamitos, CA, USA), Sept. 25-27, 2008, Dalian, China.
- Christian Vecchiola, Michael Kirley, and Rajkumar Buyya, Multi-Objective Problem Solving With Offspring on Enterprise Clouds, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on High-Performance Computing in Asia-Pacific Region (HPC Asia 2009), March 2~5, 2009, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
- Marcos Dias de Assuncao, Alexandre di Costanzo and Rajkumar Buyya, Evaluating the Cost-Benefit of Using Cloud Computing to Extend the Capacity of Clusters, Proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC 2009), Munich, Germany, June 11-13, 2009.
- Rajkumar Buyya, Chee Shin Yeo, Srikumar Venugopal, James Broberg, and Ivona Brandic, Cloud Computing and Emerging IT Platforms: Vision, Hype, and Reality for Delivering Computing as the 5th Utility, Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 25, Number 6, Pages: 599-616, ISSN: 0167-739X, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 2009.
- Rajkumar Buyya, Suraj Pandey, and Christian Vecchiola, Cloudbus Toolkit for Market-Oriented Cloud Computing, Proceeding of the 1st International Conference on Cloud Computing (CloudCom 2009, Springer, Germany), Beijing, China, December 1-4, 2009. - Keynote Paper.
- Christian Vecchiola, Suraj Pandey, and Rajkumar Buyya, High-Performance Cloud Computing: A View of Scientific Applications, Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Pervasive Systems, Algorithms and Networks (I-SPAN 2009, IEEE CS Press, USA), Kaohsiung, Taiwan, December 14-16, 2009. - Keynote Paper.
Publications - Tech Reports
- James Broberg, Rajkumar Buyya, and Zahir Tari, MetaCDN: Harnessing ‘Storage Clouds’ for high performance content delivery, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2008-11, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Aug. 15, 2008.
- Rajiv Ranjan and Rajkumar Buyya, Decentralized Overlay for Federation of Enterprise Clouds, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2008-13, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Aug. 29, 2008.
- Rajkumar Buyya, Chee Shin Yeo, Srikumar Venugopal, James Broberg, and Ivona Brandic, Cloud Computing and Emerging IT Platforms: Vision, Hype, and Reality for Delivering Computing as the 5th Utility, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2008-14, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Sept. 27, 2008.
- Chao Jin and Rajkumar Buyya, MapReduce Programming Model for .NET-based Distributed Computing, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2008-15, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Oct. 17, 2008.
- Chee Shin Yeo, Srikumar Venugopal, Xingchen Chu, and Rajkumar Buyya, Autonomic Metered Pricing for a Utility Computing Service, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2008-16, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Oct. 28, 2008.
- Rodrigo N. Calheiros, Rajiv Ranjan, Cesar A. F. De Rose, and Rajkumar Buyya, CloudSim: A Novel Framework for Modeling and Simulation of Cloud Computing Infrastructures and Services, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2009-1, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, March 13, 2009.
Presentation/Exhibition
- Rajkumar Buyya's Talk at HPCC 2008 Conference: Market-oriented Cloud and Grid computing
- IEEE Medal Award Keynote on Cloud Computing@CCGrid 2009 Conference, Shanghai, China, May 18-21, 2009.
