Cloud Computing Testbed
Illinois combines its leadership in complex systems and data intensive computing in an unmatched effort to explore challenges of data intensive computing in a distributed cloud environment.
With the Cloud Computing Testbed, Illinois focuses its world-renowned expertise in systems and networking issues to test the limits and unlock the potential of cloud computing.
We live in a world populated with enormous amounts of data from a wide variety of sources such as satellite telemetry, medical and agricultural sensors, and billions of web pages. There is a compelling human need to represent, analyze, query, manage, understand, and respond to such data for knowledge extraction and decision making.
In collaboration with Yahoo!, Intel, and Hewlett-Packard, the Illinois Department of Computer Science has established an experimental testbed for data-intensive applications using distributed “cloud” computational resources.
The global partnership also includes the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany.
The CCT effort at Illinois addresses these needs with research in:
- Operating systems
- Distributed monitoring
- Monitoring and management systems
- Virtual machines
- Network analysis
- Data mining
- Distributed systems.
Learn more about the Cloud Computing Testbed at cloud.cs.illinois.edu.