Umeå Universitet

The Umeå University research on flexible and scalable IT infrastructures covers a range of topics central to cloud computing. Research drivers are compute and data intensive applications requiring, e.g., elastic locality-aware infrastructures to meet the rapid capacity and locality variations of industrial services and large-scale distributed environments that enable coordinated use of federated resources for eScience. Research outcomes include autonomic infrastructure management systems and sophisticated tools for creating cloud-enabled applications. Central to the approach are software with flexibility in deployment and policy customization, providing key functionality for broad sets of usage scenarios.

Research topics

architectures for distributed and federated clouds
basic tools for managing compute and data intensive applications
proactive elasticity control
admission control for safe resource overbooking
placement (scheduling) of virtual machines and data
live migration of large-scale virtual machines
holistic systems management based on business level objectives
design principles for cloud-ready applications
accounting and real-time usage quota enforcement
resource brokering
real-world applications of results from these topics

Research Projects

Research Projects

eSSENCE

The overall goal of eSSENCE is to create a digital research community and environment with unprecedented research capabilities by providing excellence and scientific solutions at all stages of the eScience process. eSSENCE’s vision is to develop Swedish e-science research to the highest international level and create a research environment where the interplay between different e-science competences will open up the field for novel applications, more realistic simulations, and new scientific solutions, models and methods.

OPTIMIS

OPTIMIS (Optimized Infrastructure Services) is a EU FP7 IP project scientifically lead by the Umeå group. The OPTIMIS project takes a holistic approach to management of compute clouds. With the challenges of service and infrastructure providers as the point of departure, OPTIMIS focuses on open, scalable and dependable service platforms and architectures that allow flexible and dynamic provision of advanced services.

RESERVOIR Project
The RESERVOIR project is intended to increase the competitiveness of the EU economy by introducing a powerful ICT infrastructure for the reliable and effective delivery of services as utilities. This infrastructure will support the set-up and deployment of services on demand, and competitive costs, across disparate administrative domains, while assuring quality of service.

VISION Cloud
VISION Cloud (Virtualized Storage Services Foundation for the Future Internet) is a research project with the objective to advance the competitiveness of the EU economy by introducing a powerful ICT infrastructure for reliable and effective delivery of data-intensive storage services, facilitating the convergence of ICT, media and telecommunications.