Communications of the ACM
Building a Sustainable, Intelligent, and Power-Efficient Cloud
A European Union-funded project seeks to integrate high-performance computing with hardware and servers to build a more efficient, heterogeneous, and user-centric cloud.
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The European Union-funded CLOUDLIGHTNING project seeks to integrate high-performance computing (HPC) with hardware and servers to construct a more efficient, heterogeneous, and user-centric cloud.
CLOUDLIGHTNING estimates it can boost cloud computing capacity from 20% to 80%, and make the cloud a viable tool for HPC by overcoming an inability to configure available resources for the novel needs of the technical and scientific community.
A recent CLOUDLIGHTNING report noted a general lack of trust in the cloud by HPC users due to this inflexibility, with particular concerns about data management and a dearth of cloud infrastructure. The project plans to address these and other obstacles by developing a power-efficient infrastructure to streamline access to cloud resources.
CLOUDLIGHTNING's proposal involves creating a heterogeneous cloud system merging HPC power with the energy-efficient use of different types of hardware and servers that can interoperate.
The researchers note CLOUDLIGHTNING entails a unique cloud management and delivery architecture based on the precepts of self-organization and self-management, which shifts deployment and optimization from the consumer to the software stack operating on the cloud infrastructure.
The next phase of the project will be the rollout of a testbed to run the CLOUDLIGHTNING software stack.
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