Flux Research Group / School of Computing

Introducing CloudLab: Scientific Infrastructure for Advancing Cloud Architectures and Applications

Robert Ricci, Eric Eide, and the CloudLab Team

;login: 39(6), December 2014.

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Testbeds, Cloud

abstract

Do you have an idea for improving cloud computing? Do you need to instantiate a complete cloud stack so that you can improve part of it? Replace part of it? Tune it to better support a particular scientific workload? This article introduces CloudLab (www.cloudlab.us), a new multi-site facility that we are building to support cloud research.

Available from USENIX: https://www.usenix.org/publications/login/dec14/ricci