Indiana University

The researchers at Indiana University are working on several cloud computing projects with grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institute of Health (NIH). Their research includes: Large-Scale Distributed Scientific Experiments on Shared Substrate; Exploring the use of cloud techniques to overcome current medical computing obstacles such as long computation time and large memory requirements; and The FutureGrid project that will provide an experimental platform that accommodates batch, grid and cloud computing.

Research Projects

Research Projects

FutureGrid

This project provides a capability that makes it possible for researchers to tackle complex research challenges in computer science related to the use and security of grids and clouds. The project team will provide a significant new experimental computing grid and cloud test-bed, named FutureGrid, to the research community, together with user support for third-party researchers conducting experiments on FutureGrid.

Large-Scale Distributed Scientific Experiments on Shared Substrate
The proposed research may serve as a basis of an Internet architecture that will allow natural sharing of resources among multiple organizations by dynamically configuring and creating a requirement specific network context for a particular application.

NIH Cloud Computing Research at IU

The research team at IU is developing a software infrastructure that makes use of the substantial hardware and networking investment made by IU and the National Science Foundation in FutureGrid, a national experimental testbed, and TeraGrid, a national network of high performance computing resources. The research team will explore the use of cloud techniques to overcome current medical computing obstacles such as long computation time and large memory requirements.