Campus Compute Co-operative (CCC): A service oriented cloud federation

• Published in: 2016 IEEE 12th International Conference on e-Science (e-Science) pp. 1 - 10
• Main Authors: Grimshaw, Andrew, Prodhan, Md Anindya, Thomas, Alexander, Stewart, Craig, Knepper, Richard
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.10.2016
• Subjects: Biology; Cloud computing; Computational modeling; distributed computing; Economics; high performance computing; NIST; Production; Quality of service

Universities struggle to provide both the quantity and diversity of compute resources that their researchers need when their researchers need them. Purchasing resources to meet peak demand for all resource types is cost prohibitive for all but a few institutions. Renting capacity on commercial cloud...