Seattle: A Platform for Educational Cloud Computing


Introduction:

Cloud Computing is Internet-based computing, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices on demand, like the electricity grid. The cloud is a metaphor for the Internet based on how the internet is described in computer network diagrams; which means it is an abstraction hiding the complex infrastructure of the internet. Cloud computing is a general concept that utilizes software as a service (SaaS),and other technology trends, all of which depend on the Internet for satisfying users' needs. The majority of cloud computing infrastructure currently consists of reliable services delivered through data centres that are built on computer and storage virtualization technologies.

The services are accessible anywhere in the world, with The Cloud appearing as a single point of access for all the computing needs of consumers. As customers generally do not own the infrastructure or know all details about it, mainly they are accessing or renting, so they can consume resources as a service, may be paying for what they do not need instead for what they actually need to use. Many cloud computing providers have adopted the utility computing model which is analogous to how traditional public utilities like electricity are consumed, while others are billed on a subscription basis. By sharing consumable and "intangible" computing power between multiple "tenants", utilization rates can be improved (as servers are not left idle) which can reduce costs significantly while increasing the speed of application development

Existing System:

In the current scenario if we want to do the processing of a data we need to use the particular resources for this purpose. But this is acceptable if the large amount of data has to be processed daily. If the data processing is needed only to be one time then this can cause a serious lose in the case of both money and resources. For companies that only have to process large amounts of data on an irregular basis running their own data centre is obviously not an option. Instead, cloud computing has emerged as a promising approach to rent a large IT infrastructure on a short-term pay-per-usage basis. By using this approach efficient management of resources can be done. In the proposed system we are trying to implement such a system.

Proposed System:

Today a growing number of companies have to process huge amounts of data in a cost-efficient manner. Classical representatives for these companies are operators of Internet search engines, like Google, Yahoo or Microsoft. The vast amount of data they have to deal with every day has made traditional database solutions prohibitively expensive.

Cloud computing is rapidly increasing in popularity. Companies such as Red Hat, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and IBM are increasingly funding cloud computing infrastructure and research, making it important for students to gain the necessary skills to work with cloud-based resources. This proposed system presents a free, educational research platform called Seattle that is community-driven, a common denominator for diverse platform types, and is broadly deployed. Seattle is community-driven universities donate available compute resources on multi-user machines to the platform. These donations can come from systems with a wide variety of operating systems and architectures, removing the need for a dedicated infrastructure. Seattle is also surprisingly flexible and supports a variety of pedagogical uses because as a platform it represents a common denominator for cloud computing, grid computing, peer-to-peer networking, distributed systems, and networking. Seattle programs are portable. Students’ code can run across different operating systems and architectures without change, while the Seattle programming language is expressive enough for experimentation at a fine-grained level.

SOFTWARE SPECIFICATION

Front end : Java
Back end : My SQL
Operating system : LINUX
IDE : Net Beans

HARDWARE SPECIFICATION

Processor : Pentium IV OR Above
Primary Memory : 256 MB RAM
Storage : 40 GB Hard Disk
Display : VGA Color Monitor

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