Cloud-TM - Optimis meeting

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Cloud-TM - Optimis meeting

On September 20-21 2011 representatives of the Cloud-TM and Optimis projects met in Rome to explore collaboration opportunities.
Main discussion topics were elastic scaling in grid and cloud environments, virtual machines migration and APIs for the definition of QoS levels.

Optimis project's representative:
Johan Tordsson - Umeå University

CloudTM project's representatives:
Paolo Romano - INESC-ID
Diego Didona - INESC-ID
Bruno Ciciani - CINI
Francesco Quaglia - CINI
Roberto Palmieri - CINI
Diego Rughetti - CINI

At the bottom of the page, electronic version of the given presentations are provided.

CloudTM project overview View	6 Oct 2011 05:29	Diego Didona
Elasticity in Optimis View	6 Oct 2011 05:30	Diego Didona
Live migration of VM View	6 Oct 2011 05:28	Diego Didona
Optimis project overview View	6 Oct 2011 05:28	Diego Didona
Self-tuning data grids in CloudTM View	6 Oct 2011 05:29	Diego Didona
VM placement in Optimis View	6 Oct 2011 05:31	Diego Didona

Key Goals:

1. Transaction-centric programming paradigm

Defining a friendly programming model for large scale distributed applications that integrates the familiar notion of atomic transaction as a first-class programming language construct. This would spare programmers from the burden of implementing low level, error-prone mechanisms (e.g. distribution, persistence and fault-tolerance) attaining major reductions of the development process cost

2. Minimizing Costs

Minimizing the monitoring and administration costs by automating the provisioning of resources from the cloud based on user specified target criteria in terms of both Quality of Service and budget

3. Maximizing Scalability

Maximizing the scalability and efficiency (i.e. the costs/benefits ratio in the Cloud Computing usage-based pricing model) of the user-level services by self-tuning the middleware's internal mechanisms to ensure optimal performance in face of fluctuations of the number of allocated resources and of the workload characteristic