An Experimental Testbed for Data-Intensive Applications

We live in a world populated with enormous amounts of data from a wide variety of sources such as satellite telemetry, medical and agricultural sensors, and billions of web pages. There is a compelling human need to represent, analyze, query, manage, understand, and respond to such data for knowledge extraction and decision making.

Research on the Illinois Cloud Computing Testbed focuses on systems and networking related research issues within a data-intensive cloud computing environment.

Research with the CCT goes deep into the system software stack to explore new and better ways to provide system-level support for data-intensive computing.

Using the CCT, researchers seek to automate many resource allocation, scheduling, monitoring, and management tasks, undertake systems related research, and enable a variety of applications.

The research efforts cover a breadth of research areas including networking, operating systems, virtual machines, distributed systems, data-mining, Web search, network measurements, and multimedia.

A Global Testbed

In collaboration with Yahoo!, Intel, and Hewlett-Packard, the Illinois Department of Computer Science has established an experimental testbed for data-intensive applications using distributed “cloud” computational resources.

The global partnership also includes the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany.