XLcloud: Design, Develop and Integrate The Software Elements of a High Performance Cloud Computing (HPCC) System

The XLcloud collaborative project is developing a cloud management platform that addresses the specific requirements of high performance cloud computing applications and users. XLcloud is designed for computational intensive workloads in collaborative applications with interactive remote visualisation capabilities.
This is what XLcloud is working on:

• functional and technical specification of the XLcloud platform architecture
• open source API of the XLcloud platform
• implementation of algorithms for 3D and video streaming display
• prototype of the XLcloud platform including the support of on-demand virtual clusters and remote visualisation service
• use cases for validation, illustrating the performance and suggesting future improvements

XLcloud aims at overcoming some of the most important challenges of implementing operationally high performance applications in the Cloud. The goal is to allow partners of the project to take leading positions in the market as cloud service providers or as technology providers. The XLcloud project is supported by consortium of ten partners.