CoreGRID and clouds - Future perspectives

Abstract

Since 2004 the research interests of the CoreGRID community has evolved from distributed large scale computing to service-based computing and Clouds. The adoption of the SOA paradigm and virtualization has resulted in an unprecedented flexibility in creating distributed applications. Old and new research challenges need to be mastered to exploit fully the potential of cloud infrastructures. In this article we present outstanding cloud-related research questions that need to be addressed. It is proposed that a pan-European research community is needed to bridge existing knowledge gaps. © 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.