NCSU's Virtual Computing Lab: A Cloud Computing Solution

The delivery of many diverse computing services over the Internet, with flexible provisioning, has led to much greater efficiency, substantial cost savings, and many ways to enable and empower end users. NCSU's own experience with cloud computing, through its Virtual Computing Lab, indicates th...

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Published inComputer (Long Beach, Calif.) Vol. 42; no. 7; pp. 94 - 97
Main Authors Schaffer, H.E., Averitt, S.F., Hoit, M.I., Peeler, A., Sills, E.D., Vouk, M.A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York IEEE 01.07.2009
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects
Application software
Blades
Cloud computing
Clouds
Colleges & universities
Computation
Computer applications
Computer programming
Computing costs
Cost engineering
Costs
Education
Educational institutions
End users
Information systems
Information technology
Internet
IT systems
Licenses
Linux
Mathematical models
Multimedia computer applications
Networking and communications
Portable computers
Provisioning
Systems engineering
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Summary:The delivery of many diverse computing services over the Internet, with flexible provisioning, has led to much greater efficiency, substantial cost savings, and many ways to enable and empower end users. NCSU's own experience with cloud computing, through its Virtual Computing Lab, indicates that this approach would be beneficial to a much wider audience.ays to enable and empower end users. NCSU's own experience with cloud computing, through its Virtual Computing Lab, indicates that this approach would be beneficial to a much wider audience.
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ISSN:0018-9162
1558-0814
DOI:10.1109/MC.2009.230