Title: How to exploit grid infrastructures for federated cloud purposes with CLEVER

Authors: Francesco Tusa; Maurizio Paone; Antonio Puliafito; Massimo Villari

Addresses: Faculty of Engineering, University of Messina, Contrada di Dio, S. Agata, 98166 Messina, Italy ' Faculty of Engineering, University of Messina, Contrada di Dio, S. Agata, 98166 Messina, Italy ' Faculty of Engineering, University of Messina, Contrada di Dio, S. Agata, 98166 Messina, Italy ' Faculty of Engineering, University of Messina, Contrada di Dio, S. Agata, 98166 Messina, Italy

Abstract: Cloud computing is rapidly becoming a valuable computing infrastructure, strongly leveraging the concept of virtualisation of physical resources. This paper deals with virtualised infrastructures in federated scenarios, assuming grid resources. In particular, our CLEVER cloud middleware presents several features to easily manage private/hybrid clouds. Grid middleware may benefit from CLEVER advanced features as it offers simple and easy accessible interfaces to interact with different 'interconnected' computing infrastructures. The integration of any grid middleware with CLEVER enables administrators to easily setup a cloud infrastructure for a quick provisioning of IaaS on grid.

Keywords: cross computing; cloud computing; grid computing; XMPP; fault tolerance; virtual infrastructure management; clusters; federation; federated cloud; grid infrastructure; virtualisation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCSE.2013.055355

International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering, 2013 Vol.8 No.3, pp.253 - 268

Received: 19 Mar 2012
Accepted: 16 May 2012
Published online: 27 Dec 2013 *

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