IC Cloud: A Design Space for Composable Cloud Computing

Abstract

Cloud computing has attracted great interest from both academic and industrial communities. Different paradigms, architectures and applications have emerged. However, to the best of our knowledge, only few efforts have been de- voted to study the architecture as well as implementation details for building up a cloud computing system. In this paper, we present our design and implementation of Imperial College Cloud (IC Cloud). The goal of IC Cloud is to provide a generic design space where various cloud computing architectures and implementation strategies can be systematically studied. The IC Cloud design strictly fol- lows the SOA principle and incorporates a highly flexible system design approach.