%0 Thesis
%A Bengi, Burak
%T Implementing End-to-End Integration of UNICORE Target Systems in the Cloud
%I Fachhochschule Aachen
%V BA
%M FZJ-2013-06040
%P 47 p.
%D 2013
%Z Fachhochschule Aachen, Bachelorarbeit, 2014
%X With ever increasing amount of information and computing resources at humanity's disposal, the demand to process the information into knowledge has risen accordingly. Various approaches are developed to meet the demand, in other words to bring vast amounts of computing resources and information together. Many advancements in storage, networking, and processing power paved the way to new solutions yet connecting fresh sources of information contributing to the increase.
%X In this regard Distributed computing provides a solution to process vast amounts of information. It basically offers a model based on connecting many computing resources in a network, distributing the information over the network to be processed and then combining the results together.
%X Over the years many distributed computing models are developed but in particular Grid computing model has been popular within the research community. Grid computing focused on efficient utilisation of computing resources with support for multiple administrative policies, security authentication and authorization mechanisms, and workload management. While the standardisation efforts of organisations such as OGF and OASIS were successful and made meaningful contributions to Grid computing, it did not achieve wide adoption outside of the research community and to this date no viable commercial Grid computing providers emerged.
%X With these observations in mind, an alternative distributed computing model, cloud computing, comes forward. Although, the dependence of cloud computing to Grid infrastructure is evident, it differs from Grid computing in several aspects. One of these aspects and the root cause behind the differences, the business model, is driving the cloud computing model to gain more and more adoption every day. Needing only a credit card instead of a billion dollar investment to get on-demand access to hundreds of thousands processors in tens of data centres in different continents is the key factor to this business model.
%X UNICORE defines itself as a unified interface to computing resources, although cloud computing resources were left out of this definition. Furthermore, preventing the users to benefit from abundant cloud computing resources introduced a drawback.
%X This thesis presents a solution for the aforementioned situation by building a bridge between UNICORE middleware and cloud computing. The idea is to implement the integration of cloud computing resources into UNICORE system layer. In this way, users will benefit from quick deployment of various application environments in the cloud and make use of many existing UNICORE services.
%K Unveröffentlichte Hochschulschrift (GND)
%F PUB:(DE-HGF)2
%9 Bachelor Thesis
%U https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/140793