Automatic resource elasticity for the Cloud CONCEPT Provision for automatic, fine-grained resource allocation for Cloud applications. Commit just the right amount of resources based on application demand, performance and requirements www.celarcloud.eu Result in optimal use of infrastructure and significant reductions in costs. CONTRIBUTIONS – EXPECTED RESULTS AT A GLANCE A set of open-source tools to enhance cloud platforms towards automatic, Project title: CELAR: Cloud ELAsticity pRovisining Project reference: 317790 intelligent, multi-grained resource provisioning according to user needs. Project coordinator: ATHENA Research and Innovation Centre, GREECE Consists of four components: Partners: ATHENA R.C. in ICKT (Greece), University of Cyprus (Cyprus), Vienna University of Technology (Austria), Greek Research and Technology Network S.A. Elasticity provisioning subsystem Cloud information subsystem (Greece), Playgen (UK), Institute of Cancer Research (UK), Sixsq Sarl (Switzerland), A middleware for adaptive and A Cloud resource description Flexiant Limited (UK) automatic management of platform framework and search capabilities for Duration: 36 months Total cost:€3.47Μ resources. Cloud resources c-Eclipse framework Cloud Monitoring tool plug-ins for accessing and Multi-layer tool that gathers platform, Elasticity-demanding Applications managing Cloud resources on the infrastructure and application-side RA-3 Cloudification of cloud Application envisioned platform metrics and evaluates them in a composite fashion. On-Line gaming Scientific Computing Architecture RA-3 - Modelling Application Elasticity RA-2 - Application Description - Application Submission - Multi-layer Cloud Platform Monitoring - Composable Cost Evaluation - Cloud Information System RA-1 - Cloud Resource Management - Automatic Decision Making for Elastic Performance - Cloud Platform Coordination Cloud Application Clusters CELAR VM Resources ... RESEARCH AREAS RA No. Research Area Name Main Contributors Related WPs RA-1 Elasticity provisioning Cloud platform ATHENA, TUW WP 3, WP 5 Cluster CloudResource Management Resources RA-2 Cloud Monitoring UCY, TUW, ATHENA WP 4 RA-3 Application Management UCY, SIXSQ WP 2 Contact: Prof. Nectarios Koziris Co-funded by the EC [email protected] [email protected] under the FP7 programme Partners.