An Open-Source Framework for Integrating Heterogeneous Resources in Private Clouds

Julio Proaño, Carmen Carrión, Blanca Caminero

2014

Abstract

Heterogeneous hardware acceleration architectures are becoming an important tool for achieving high performance in cloud computing environments. Both FPGAs and GPUs provide huge computing capabilities over large amounts of data. At the same time, energy efficiency is a big concern in nowadays computing systems. In this paper we propose a novel architecture aimed at integrating hardware accelerators into a Cloud Computing infrastructure, and making them available as a service. The proposal harnesses advances in FPGA dynamic reconfiguration and efficient virtualization technology to accelerate the execution of certain types of tasks. In particular, applications that can be described as Big Data would greatly benefit from the proposed architecture.

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in Harvard Style

Proaño J., Carrión C. and Caminero B. (2014). An Open-Source Framework for Integrating Heterogeneous Resources in Private Clouds . In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-758-019-2, pages 129-134. DOI: 10.5220/0004936601290134


in Bibtex Style

@conference{closer14,
author={Julio Proaño and Carmen Carrión and Blanca Caminero},
title={An Open-Source Framework for Integrating Heterogeneous Resources in Private Clouds},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2014},
pages={129-134},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004936601290134},
isbn={978-989-758-019-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
TI - An Open-Source Framework for Integrating Heterogeneous Resources in Private Clouds
SN - 978-989-758-019-2
AU - Proaño J.
AU - Carrión C.
AU - Caminero B.
PY - 2014
SP - 129
EP - 134
DO - 10.5220/0004936601290134