Project Details

Project Lead

Paul Marshall 

Project Manager

Paul Marshall 

Project Members

Bradley Henke, Matthew Woitaszek  

Institution

University of Colorado at Boulder, Computer Science  

Discipline

Computer Science (401) 

Abstract

Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) clouds can be used to extend site resources, such as a compute cluster or storage repository, to create elastic computing environments. However, at this time such extensions must be done manually by an administrator. This project will focus on tools and technologies to create elastic computing environments using IaaS clouds that adjust to changes in demand automatically and transparently.

Intellectual Merit

Provide later

Broader Impacts

Provide later

Scale of Use

In general it will only require periodic access to a handful of nodes. However, on occasion it may require access to hundred's of cores for a relatively short amount of time (a few hours at a time).