CELAR was a research project which successfully developed an open source set of tools designed to provide automatic, multi-grained resource allocation for cloud applications.
Paris, France [C15] On Analyzing Elasticity Relationships of Cloud Services, (15–18 December 2014) Daniel Moldovan, Georgiana Copil, Hong-Linh Truong, Schahram Dustdar, 6th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, CloudCom 2014, Singapore [C16] SALSA: a Framework for Dynamic Configuration of Cloud Services, (15–18 December 2014) Duc-Hung Le, Hong-Linh Truong, Georgiana Copil, Stefan Nastic and Schahram Dustdar, 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, CloudCom 2014, Singapore [C17] Coordination-aware Elasticity, (8–11 December 2014) Stefano Mariani, Hong-Linh Truong, Georgiana Copil, Andrea Omicini, Schahram Dustdar, 7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, London, 2014 [C18] CELAR: Automated Application Elasticity Platform, (27–30 October) Ioannis Giannakopoulos, Nikolaos Papailiou, Christos Mantas, Ioannis Konstantinou, Dimitrios Tsoumakos and Nectarios Koziris, 2014 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Washington DC, USA, 2014 [C19] Dependable Horizontal Scaling Based On Probabilistic Model Checking, A. Naskos, E. Stachtiari, A. Gounaris, P. Katsaros, D.Tsoumakos, I. Konstantinou and S. Sioutas, CCGrid 2015 conference [C20] PANIC: Modeling Application Performance over Virtualized Resources, I. Giannakopoulos, D. Tsoumakos, N. Papailiou and N. Koziris, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E 2015) [C21] I/O Performance Modeling for Big Data Applications over Cloud Infrastructures, I. Mytilinis, D. Tsoumakos, V. Kantere, A. Nanos and N. Koziris, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E 2015) [C22] Transforming Vertical Web Applications Into Elastic Cloud Applications, Nikola Tankovic, Tihana Galinac Grbac, Hong-Linh Truong, Schahram Dustdar, International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E 2015), 9–12 March 2015, USA, doi:10.1109/IC2E.2015.15 [C23] On Developing and Operating of Data Elasticity Management Process, Tien-Dung Nguyen, Hong-Linh Truong, Georgiana Copil, Duc-Hung Le, Daniel Moldovan, Schahram Dustdar, 13th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC) 2015, 16–19 November, Goa, India [C24] iCOMOT – Toolset for Managing IoT Cloud Systems, Hong-Linh Truong, Georgiana Copil, Schahram Dustdar, Duc-Hung Le, Daniel Moldovan, Stefan Nastic, 16th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management, 15–18 June 2015, Pittsburg, USA.
doi:10.1007/s10586-015-0456-6, Print ISSN 1386-7857, Online ISSN 1573-7543 [C37] A Cost-Effective Approach to Improving Performance of Big Genomic Data Analyses in Clouds, Christopher Smowton, Andoena Balla, Demetris Antoniades, Crispin Miller, GeorgePallis, Marios D. Dikaiakos, Wei Xing, Submitted to Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems (under review) [C38] SCAN: A Smart Application Platform for Empowering Parallelization of Big Genomic Data Analysis in Clouds, Wei Xing, Jie Wei, Crispin Miller, 44th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-2015), 2015, Beijing, China [C39] Genome Analysis in a Dynamically Scaled Hybrid Cloud, Chris Smowton, Georgiana Copil, Hong-Linh Truong, Crispin Miller and Wei Xing, IEEE eScience 2015, Munich, Germany [C40] A Cloud-based Data Network Approach for Translational Cancer Research, Wei Xing, Dimitrios Tsoumakos, Moustafa Ghanem, GeNeDis 2014 Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Springer International Publishing, ISBN 978-3-319-09011-5; DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-09012-2, 2015 [J1] MELA: Elasticity Analytics for Cloud Services, Daniel Moldovan, Georgiana Copil, Hong-Linh Truong, Schahram Dustdar, to appear in International Journal of Big Data Intelligence 2015, Vol.
[J3]: Programming Elasticity in the Cloud, Hong-Linh Truong, Schahram Dustdar, Computer, March 2015 [BC1] On Controlling Elasticity of Cloud Applications in CELAR, Georgiana Copil, Daniel Moldovan, Duc-Hung Le, Hong-Linh Truong, Schahram Dustdar, Chrystalla Sofokleous, Nicholas Loulloudes, Demetris Trihinas, George Pallis, Marios D. Dikaiakos, Craig Sheridan, Evangelos Floros, Christos KK Loverdos, Kam Star, Wei Xing, to appear in Emerging Research in Cloud Distributed Computing Systems, Advances in Systems Analysis, Software Engineering, and High Performance Computing (ASASEHPC) Book Series Key: C – Conference, BC – Book Chapter, J – Journal Auto Scaling Resources is one of the top obstacles[4] and opportunities[5] for cloud computing: consumers can minimize the execution time of their tasks without exceeding a given budget.
CELAR | Future Internet Assembly | Athens 2014 Craig Sheridan, Head of Research Flexiant said in a statement: “Combining our consultancy and expertise of cloud orchestration with world class academic and industrial partners in this project will offer the consortium the qualitative and quantitative information necessary to gauge platform and application performance to facilitate intelligent deployment decisions.”[2] The goal of the CELAR project was to develop methods and open-source tools for applying and controlling multi-grained, elastic resource provisioning for Cloud applications in an automated manner.
Nectarios Koziris, Project Coordinator and Associate Professor of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens explains: “The result of CELAR is a software package that offers organisations the right amount of resources based on application demand, performance and requirements resulting in optimal use of infrastructure resources and significant reductions in administrative costs.”[6] CELAR covers the three layers required by an application to operate over the Cloud: The outcome is a modular, completely open-source system that offers elastic programmability for the user and automatic elasticity at the platform level.