Cloud computing research

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Many universities, vendors, institutes and government organizations are investing in cloud computing research:{{cite web |url=http://www.cloudbook.net/directories/research-clouds |title=Cloud Net Directory. Retrieved 2010-03-01 |publisher=Cloudbook.net |access-date=2010-08-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100903211808/http://www.cloudbook.net/directories/research-clouds |archive-date=2010-09-03 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=114686 |title=– National Science Foundation (NSF) News – National Science Foundation Awards Millions to Fourteen Universities for Cloud Computing Research – US National Science Foun |publisher=Nsf.gov |access-date=2011-08-20}}

• In October 2007, the Academic Cloud Computing Initiative (ACCI) was announced as a multi-university project designed to enhance students' technical knowledge to address the challenges of cloud computing.{{cite web|url=http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/05/02/ibm-google-team-on-an-enterprise-cloud/ |title=IBM, Google Team on an Enterprise Cloud |date=2008-05-02 |author=Rich Miller |access-date=2010-08-22 |publisher=DataCenterKnowledge.com}}
• In April 2009, UC Santa Barbara released the first open source platform-as-a-service, AppScale, which is capable of running Google App Engine applications at scale on a multitude of infrastructures.
• In April 2009, the St Andrews Cloud Computing Co-laboratory was launched, focusing on research in the important new area of cloud computing. Unique in the UK, StACC aims to become an international centre of excellence for research and teaching in cloud computing and provides advice and information to businesses interested in cloud-based services.{{cite web|url=http://www.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/stacc|title=StACC – Collaborative Research in Cloud Computing|publisher=University of St Andrews department of Computer Science|access-date=2012-06-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120718095014/http://www.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/stacc|archive-date=2012-07-18|url-status=dead}}
• In October 2010, the TClouds (Trustworthy Clouds) project was started, funded by the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme. The project's goal is to research and inspect the legal foundation and architectural design to build a resilient and trustworthy cloud-of-cloud infrastructure on top of that. The project also develops a prototype to demonstrate its results.{{cite web |url=http://www.tclouds-project.eu|title=Trustworthy Clouds: Privacy and Resilience for Internet-scale Critical Infrastructure|access-date=2012-06-17}}
• In January 2011, the IRMOS EU-funded project developed a real-time cloud platform, enabling interactive applications to be executed in cloud infrastructures.{{Cite web |url=http://www.irmosproject.eu/ |title=IRMOS - Home |access-date=2021-07-18 |archive-date=2018-10-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181010014859/http://www.irmosproject.eu/ |url-status=dead }}
• In February 2011, Enterprise Ireland and the Irish Industrial Development Authority launched the Irish Centre for Cloud Computing and Commerce to deliver industry-led research on cloud architectures, quality of service, security and business and legal issues.
• In July 2011, the High Performance Computing Cloud (HPCCLoud) project was kicked off, aiming at finding out the possibilities of enhancing performance on cloud environments while running the scientific applications – development of HPCCLoud Performance Analysis Toolkit which was funded by CIM-Returning Experts Programme – under the coordination of Prof. Dr. Shajulin Benedict.
• In June 2011, the Telecommunications Industry Association developed a Cloud Computing White Paper, to analyze the integration challenges and opportunities between cloud services and traditional U.S. telecommunications standards.{{cite web |url=http://www.tiaonline.org/market_intelligence/publication_download.cfm?file=TIA_Cloud_Computing_White_Paper |title=Publication Download |publisher=Tiaonline.org |access-date=2011-12-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111202111812/http://www.tiaonline.org/market_intelligence/publication_download.cfm?file=TIA_Cloud_Computing_White_Paper |archive-date=2011-12-02 |url-status=dead }}
• In December 2011, the VISION Cloud EU-funded project proposed an architecture along with an implementation of a cloud environment for data-intensive services aiming to provide a virtualized Cloud Storage infrastructure.{{cite book | doi = 10.1109/CloudCom.2011.55 | year=2011 | pages=357–366 | last1 = Kolodner | first1 = Elliot K. | last2 = Tal | first2 = Sivan | last3 = Kyriazis | first3 = Dimosthenis | last4 = Naor | first4 = Dalit | last5 = Allalouf | first5 = Miriam | last6 = Bonelli | first6 = Lucia | last7 = Brand | first7 = Per | last8 = Eckert | first8 = Albert | last9 = Elmroth | first9 = Erik | last10 = Gogouvitis | first10 = Spyridon V. | last11 = Harnik | first11 = Danny | last12 = Hernandez | first12 = Francisco | last13 = Jaeger | first13 = Michael C. | last14 = Bayuh Lakew | first14 = Ewnetu | last15 = Manuel Lopez | first15 = Jose | last16 = Lorenz | first16 = Mirko | last17 = Messina | first17 = Alberto | last18 = Shulman-Peleg | first18 = Alexandra | last19 = Talyansky | first19 = Roman | last20 = Voulodimos | first20 = Athanasios | last21 = Wolfsthal | first21 = Yaron| title=2011 IEEE Third International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science | chapter=A Cloud Environment for Data-intensive Storage Services | isbn=978-1-4673-0090-2 | citeseerx=10.1.1.302.151 | s2cid=96939 }}
• In October 2012, the Centre For Development of Advanced Computing released an open source, complete cloud service, software suite called "Meghdoot".{{Citation | chapter = An approach towards digital forensic framework for cloud | pages = 798–801 | year = 2014 | doi = 10.1109/IAdCC.2014.6779425 | publisher = IEEE | series = Advance Computing Conference (IACC), 2014 IEEE International | last1 = Shah | first1 = J.J.| title = 2014 IEEE International Advance Computing Conference (IACC) | isbn = 978-1-4799-2572-8 | s2cid = 18912481 }}
• In October 2012, the ECO2Clouds EU-funded project was launched to analyze the environmental impact of applications on the cloud and to optimize their deployment and scheduling based on a monitoring infrastructure based on BonFIRE proving ecometrics {{cite web |url=http://eco2clouds.eu|title=Experimental Awareness of CO2 in Federated Cloud Sourcing|access-date=2014-07-07}}
• In February 2013, the BonFIRE project launched a multi-site cloud experimentation and testing facility. The facility provides transparent access to cloud resources, with the control and observability necessary to engineer future cloud technologies, in a way that is not restricted, for example, by current business models.{{cite web|url=http://www.bonfire-project.eu/|title=Testbeds for cloud experimentation and testing|access-date=2013-04-09|archive-date=2013-04-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130403051813/http://www.bonfire-project.eu/|url-status=dead}}
• In October 2013, the CACTOS project (short for Content-Aware Cloud Simulation and Optimisation) was launched to address the specific problems data centre operators face due to the exploding heterogeneity of the underlying hardware.
• In February 2015, CloudLightning, a European Commission-funded Horizon 2020 project, was launched to address energy efficiency and high performance by developing a self-organising, self-optimising heterogeneous cloud computing service delivery model. Its initial application domains: genome processing, oil and gas exploration, and ray tracing.{{cite web |url=http://cloudlightning.eu/|title=CloudLightning: self-organising, self-optimising heterogeneous cloud|access-date=2015-08-14}}{{Cite book|last=Lynn|title=Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science |display-authors=et al|date=2016|chapter=CLOUDLIGHTNING: A Framework for a Self-organising and Self-managing Heterogeneous Cloud|pages=333–338|doi=10.5220/0005921503330338|isbn=978-989-758-182-3}}
• In January 2017, RECAP, an EU-funded Horizon 2020 project, was launched to advance cloud and edge computing technology. It develops mechanisms for reliable capacity provisioning to make application placement, infrastructure management, and capacity provisioning autonomous, predictable and optimized.{{cite web |url=http://recap-project.eu/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170225043202/http://recap-project.eu/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=February 25, 2017|title=Reliable Capacity Provisioning and Enhanced Remediation for Distributed Cloud Applications|access-date=2017-08-28}}{{Cite book|last=Ostberg|chapter=Reliable capacity provisioning for distributed cloud/Edge/Fog computing applications |title=2017 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) |display-authors=et al|date=2017|pages=1–6|doi=10.1109/EuCNC.2017.7980667|hdl=11572/272828 |isbn=978-1-5386-3873-6|s2cid=19836815 }}