e-Science–towards the cloud: infrastructures, applications and research

e-Science-towards the cloud: infrastructures, applications and research.

Integrated Monitoring of Infrastructures and Applications in Cloud Environments

One approach to fully exploit the potential of Cloud technologies consists in leveraging on the Autonomic Computing paradigm. It could be exploited in order to put in place reconfiguration strategies spanning the whole protocol stack, starting from the infrastructure and then going up to platform/application level protocols. On the other hand, the very base for the design and development of Clo...

Virtual Resource Management for Data Intensive Applications in Cloud Infrastructures

Cloud computing describes the model of a scalable resource provisioning technology that redirects the possibility of hardware and software leasing to the Internet, through the use of an equitable pay-per-use strategy. In this paper we present a new provisioning mechanism in Clouds used for large-scale data-intensive computing. Our project addresses the key requirements in managing resources at ...

Cost minimization for computational applications on hybrid cloud infrastructures

We address the problem of task planning on multiple clouds formulated as a mixed integer nonlinear programming problem (MINLP). Its specification with AMPL modeling language allows us to apply solvers such as Bonmin and Cbc. Our model assumes multiple heterogeneous compute and storage cloud providers, such as Amazon, Rackspace, GoGrid, ElasticHosts and a private cloud, parameterized by costs an...

e-Infrastructures supporting research into depression, self-harm and suicide.

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)-funded Data Management through e-Social Sciences (DAMES) project is investigating, as one of its four research themes, how research into depression, self-harm and suicide may be enhanced through the adoption of e-Science infrastructures and techniques. In this paper, we explore the challenges in supporting such research infrastructures and describ...