Abstract
Cloud computing is the emerging technology in distributed, autonomic, service-oriented, on-demand, trusted computing. The fact that several Cloud solutions have been implemented so far, such as Amazon EC2 and S3, IBM’s Blue Cloud, Sun Network.com, Microsoft Azure Services Platform, etc., is evidence of the great success already achieved by this computing paradigm. On the other hand, an increasing number of research projects focus on Cloud (Nimbus, OpenNEbula, Eucalyptus, OpenQRM, RESERVOIR, etc.) thus confirming that the topic is really hot, attracts investments and funds, and involves more and more researchers.
Our idea of Cloud has been synthesized into Cloud@Home, a computing paradigm that supports both open and commercial communities. Starting from the contribution philosophy at the basis of the Volunteer computing paradigm, we imagine a Cloud built on off the shelf, independent, network-connected resources and devices owned and managed by different users. Such users can both sell and/or buy their resources to/from Cloud providers or, alternatively, they can share them with other users establishing open interoperable Clouds.
Being aware of the crucial and driving role played by the RESERVOIR project in defining and implementing a reference architecture for Cloud computing, in this paper we focus on how to adapt and use the results of such project in the Cloud@Home specification. Starting from the RESERVOIR architecture, we discuss and detail how the Cloud@Home paradigm can be implemented on top of it, individuating components and modules to be integrated in a new reference architecture which allows to extend RESERVOIR towards the Volunteer contributing paradigm, improving SLA management and federation issues and, at the same time, enhancing virtualization and resources management in Cloud@Home.
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Cunsolo, V.D., Distefano, S., Puliafito, A. (2010). Cloud@Home on Top of RESERVOIR. In: Avresky, D.R., Diaz, M., Bode, A., Ciciani, B., Dekel, E. (eds) Cloud Computing. CloudComp 2009. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 34. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12636-9_3
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