REINS has been actively focused on cloud computing for nearly 2 years — so far we have successfully performed many research works covering topics from cloud resource management, cloud federation to data management. Following last year when we concluded and published our achievements in 4 papers to conferences such as CSC, APSCC and DASC, this year we are pleased to be informed that 2 our work-in-progress papers have been accepted by CLOUD 2012, which is located at Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A..
Inspired by the lack of benchmark support for cloud object storage such as Eucalyptus Walrus and Openstack Swift, Qing is investigating related technologies towards a benchmark tool for characterizing object storage services. The initial work has been published at CLOUD 2012 work-in-progress track. Generally speaking, such benchmark tool will not only be important for comparing different storage services, but also vital to drive optimization and innovation for novel object storage solutions.
Another work-in-process paper also get accepted has concerned itself with virtual machine placement. Different from most existing works which do not take system availability into consideration, in this work, Wenting proposed an algorithm capable of balancing application performance and system availability so that performance can be maximized under a certain availability constraint given often by an application owner.
The above pictures were shot when they were presenting theirs papers at the conference. For more details about the above works, please check out our research posters.