The 7th Annual Meeting on High Performance Computing and Infrastructure in Norway

NOTUR2008 - ABSTRACTS

RESERVOIR - Bringing the Cloud Down to Earth

Eliot Salant

Cloud Computing is a hot buzzword in today's ICT world, even though there may be not total agreement on what Cloud Computing really means. So, without trying to give an exact definition of Cloud Computing, we will look a bit at current commerical efforts in the Cloud world, and understand the benefits that Cloud Computing can offer today. We will then try looking down the road to see what will really be required from a Cloud as the ICT world moves to Web 2.0 and beyond. I will then discuss the vision of the RESERVOIR project, which is a three year project being funded by the European Union FP7 initiative, with a total budget of over 17,000,000 euros, and is aiming to create the infrastructure for the next generation cloud.

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