WELCOME
Cloud computing promises to bring ubiquitous information access with virtually-unbounded resources to all users at home, at work or on the move alike. EcoCloud is a consortium of university researchers to pioneer technologies to make cloud computing scalable, cost-effective and sustainable.
EcoCloud addresses the fundamental research challenges of tomorrow's clouds along three thrusts:
Cloud data
A key challenge for today's cloud applications when querying data is response consistency and response time predictability. We are developing technologies to improve trust in cloud data management by designing seamless, service-oriented query processing techniques that exploit the cloud platforms and infrastructure optimally.
Cloud energy
The computing servers forming the backbone of information technology have hit an energy wall with unsurmountable costs and environmental implications. We are innovating vertically-integrated computing and cooling technologies to provide a holistic approach to energy management and minimization.
Cloud intelligence
Clouds have been successfully used to scale data-parallel applications, but what about the truly "hard" problems, which cannot be easily parallelized and that are exponential in nature? We are developing ways to solve such problems in the cloud, marking the next phase in transitioning critical applications from big, expensive monolithic computers to large clusters of commodity nodes.