Generating User Interfaces to the Cloud

Google Summer of Code 2009 ideas

Primary Mentor: Jano van Hemert (Jano van Hemert)
Secondary Mentor: Jos Koetsier (Jos Koetsier)
OMII Project: Rapid.

Background

Rapid is a unique way of quickly designing and delivering web portal interfaces to applications that require computational resources, such as utility computing infrastructures or high-performance computing facilities. It focuses on the requirements of the end-user by designing customised user interfaces for domain-specific applications that allow users to achieve particular tasks.

Project Goals

Currently, Rapid works with Grid and High-Performance Computing infrastructure. It is your task to adapt Rapid so as it can be used to generate intuitive interfaces that submit jobs to cloud infrastructures.

Project Description

You will install an Open Source Cloud solution, such as EUCALYPTUS or Hadoop. Then, after experimenting a bit with Rapid, you will add at least one more job submission and monitoring engine to Rapid that connects to such a cloud infrastructure.

Project Requirements

Knowledge of Java is required. A bit of experience with XML is useful.