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Researchers Collaborate on Project to Integrate 'Cloud Computing' With 'Grid' Technologies
Credit: Trinity College Dublin
European researchers working on the StratusLab project are developing software designed to improve distributed computing infrastructures in an effort to enable research and higher education organizations to pool computing resources. Trinity College Dublin (TCD) researchers are leading the development of a repository of virtual appliances that will make it easier to create grid systems. The virtual appliances repository is designed to facilitate the growth and availability of grid computing for researchers.
"The StratusLab toolkit will make the grid easier to manage and will allow grids to tap into commercial cloud services to meet peak demands," says TCD's David O'Callaghan. "Later it will allow organizations that already provide a grid service to offer a cloud service to academic users, whilst retaining the many benefits of the grid approach."
The StratusLab project enhances the distributed computing infrastructure ecosystem by simplifying management, adding flexibility, and increasing maintainability, quality, energy efficiency, and resiliency of computing sites.
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