Authors:
Andy C. Bavier
1
;
Marco Yuen
1
;
Jessica Blaine
2
;
Rick McGeer
2
;
Alvin Au Young
2
;
Yvonne Coady
3
;
Chris Matthews
3
;
Chris Pearson
3
;
Alex Snoeren
4
and
Joe Mambretti
5
Affiliations:
1
Princeton University, United States
;
2
HP Labs, United States
;
3
University of Victoria, Canada
;
4
University of California, United States
;
5
Northwestern University, United States
Keyword(s):
Distributed query infrastructures, Federation across cloud domains, Advanced network architecture.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Cloud Application Scalability and Availability
;
Cloud Computing
;
Cloud Computing Architecture
;
Cloud Interoperability
;
Cloud Middleware Frameworks
;
Cloud Standards
;
Fundamentals
;
Platforms and Applications
Abstract:
In this position paper, we consider architectures of distributed interconnected clouds across geographically distributed, independently-administered storage and computation clusters. We consider two problems: federation of access across heterogeneous administrative domains and computation jobs run over the wide area and heterogeneous data sets. We argue that a single, flexible architecture, analogous to the TCP/IP stack for networking, is sufficient to support these jobs, and outline its major elements. As with the networking stack, many elements are in place today to build an initial version of this architecture over existing facilities. With the sponsorship of the US National Science Foundation GENI project and the cooperation of the EU FIRE project, we are building an initial implementation, the TransCloud. We describe our initial results.