Abstract
The cloud case study within ASCENS explores the vision of an autonomic cloud, which is a cloud providing a platform-as-a-service computing infrastructure which, contrary to the usual practice, does not consist of a well-maintained set of reliable high-performance computers, but instead is formed by a loose collection of voluntarily provided heterogeneous nodes which are connected in a peer-to-peer manner. Such an infrastructure must deal with network resilience, data redundancy, and failover mechanisms for executing applications. As such, the autonomic cloud thus requires a certain degree of self-awareness, monitoring, and self-adaptation to reach its goals, which has been achieved with the integration of ASCENS methods and techniques.
This research was supported by the European project IP 257414 (ASCENS).
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Mayer, P. et al. (2015). The Autonomic Cloud. In: Wirsing, M., Hölzl, M., Koch, N., Mayer, P. (eds) Software Engineering for Collective Autonomic Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8998. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16310-9_16
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