Building an on-demand virtual computing market in non-commercial communities
Matthias Steinbauer, Ismail Mohamad Khalil, Gabriele Kotsis · 2013
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.