Project description Software Engineering, Services and Cloud Computing Show the project objective Hide the project objective User demand and new technologies are driving a drastic increase in cloud infrastructure scale, heterogeneity and complexity. The demand for better energy efficiency has led to a variety of technological options to build servers from different CPU architectures as well as specialised options for highly parallel tasks such as manycore systems or General Purposed GPUs. At the same time, service provisioning has evolved from Web Services and infrastructure virtualisation to Clouds, which is conceptually very similar to the evolution from traditional server hosting to more interactive services (e.g. remote rendering or gaming). Modern offerings go beyond simple services, including full platforms, complex compositions and whole infrastructures. This leads to a significant complexity in mapping the different modules of these solutions on the large variety of available hardware options. Similarly data centres have made significant investments in energy efficient buildings, server racks and facility management technology and understand themselves as Smart Consumers in evolving SmartGrid environments.To cope with the challenge to optimise the mapping of services to a variety of different resources, both hardware and software related (e.g. high bandwidth demands), requires topology aware mapping. This mapping needs to consider placement of the services across geographically distributed centres and demands new intelligent and cross-domain integration of actual and historical usage data.Consequently the key research challenges addressed in CACTOS are as follows:\tHow to model heterogeneous workloads, infrastructure-architecture models and topologies as well as facility management information and energy supplier information within a coherent information model\tA scalable and open collection and analysis framework for historical usage data and how to derive from intelligent management strategies how to respond to different observed situations autonomously. This requires integration of research results from the Cloud and Data Centre Management field as well as from Mathematics and Operations Research\tRealisation of new infrastructure management methods that intregate different aspects into a unified multi-dimensional optimisation model. This includes among others dynamic workload placement, scheduling and migration by continuous optimization across multiple partially orthogonal or correlated criteria (consumer contracts; provider contracts e.g. for energy, network bandwidth, capacity, licenses, ...; energy efficiency and costs) Development of a simulation framework for conducting costs and risk analysis in order to validate the intelligent Context-Aware Cloud Topology Optimisation strategies for robustness on a large scale beyond the limits of prototypical installations and deployments The toolkit realised in CACTOS will be validated against three distinct scenarios for business analytics, enterprise applications and technical computing use cases. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwareengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringcomputer hardwarecomputer processorsnatural sciencesmathematicspure mathematicstopology Programme(s) FP7-ICT - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies Topic(s) ICT-2013.1.2 - Software Engineering, Services and Cloud Computing Call for proposal FP7-ICT-2013-10 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP - Collaborative project (generic) Coordinator UNIVERSITAET ULM Address Helmholtzstrasse 16 89081 Ulm Germany See on map Region Baden-Württemberg Tübingen Ulm, Stadtkreis Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Michaela Schuhmacher (Mrs.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution No data Participants (7) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all REALTECH AG Participation ended Germany EU contribution € 105 969,00 Address Industriestrasse 39 c 69190 Walldorf See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Andreas Heil (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Other funding No data FZI FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM INFORMATIK Germany EU contribution € 484 655,00 Address Haid und neu strasse 10-14 76131 Karlsruhe See on map Region Baden-Württemberg Karlsruhe Karlsruhe, Stadtkreis Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Klaus Krogmann (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY Ireland EU contribution € 310 417,00 Address Glasnevin 9 Dublin See on map Region Ireland Eastern and Midland Dublin Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact James Byrne (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data UMEA UNIVERSITET Sweden EU contribution € 659 900,00 Address Universitetomradet 901 87 Umea See on map Region Norra Sverige Övre Norrland Västerbottens län Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Lennart Edblom (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data FLEXIANT LIMITED United Kingdom EU contribution € 536 700,00 Address One portland place W1B 1PN London See on map Region London Inner London — West Westminster Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Burns Ger (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Other funding No data THE QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST United Kingdom EU contribution € 600 100,00 Address University road lanyon building BT7 1NN Belfast See on map Region Northern Ireland Northern Ireland Belfast Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Dimitrios Nikolopoulos (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data PLAYGEN LIMITED United Kingdom EU contribution € 141 801,00 Address 86 paul street, 3rd floor EC2A 4NE London See on map Region London Inner London — East Hackney and Newham Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Kam Star (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Other funding No data