The Eucalyptus Open-source Cloud-computing System.PDF

The Eucalyptus Open-source Cloud-computing System Daniel Nurmi, Rich Wolski, Chris Grzegorczyk Graziano Obertelli, Sunil Soman, Lamia Youseff, Dmitrii Zagorodnov Computer Science Department University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, California 93106 Abstract source location process involves a mix of resource avail- ability, application performance profiling, software ser- Cloud computing systems fundamentally provide ac- vice requirements, and administrative connections. While cess to large amounts of data and computational resources great strides have been made in the HPC and Grid Com- through a variety of interfaces. Many extant systems have puting communities [10, 4] toward the creation of resource in common the notion that resources can be acquired and provisioning standards [9, 11, 17, 19], this process re- released on-demand and that the user interface be kept mains somewhat cumbersome for a user with complex re- fairly simple. In addition, resources provided by cloud source requirements. computing systems hide a great deal of information from For example, a user that requires a large number of the user through virtualization (physical location of the computational resources might have to contact several resource, precise architectural details of the compute re- different resource providers in order to satisfy her re- sources). These types of systems offer a new program- quirements. When the pool of resources is finally deliv- ming target for scalable application develo