Virtual Infrastructure Management Framework for Cloud Computing

  • Guang He
  • KaiTian Chen
  • XuXiang Chen
  • ShiGui Cai
  • ShiWen Mao
Conference paper
Part of the Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering book series (LNEE, volume 226)

Abstract

In this paper, we presented challenges involved in computational biology applications where enormous computing power and storage is required. In this context, we presented virtual infrastructure management framework Phoenix that aims to extend existing command-line-based management tools into a Web-based tool with security added. This is an open source framework built above OpenNebula to support VirtualBox and other standard hypervisors. The drivers developed are seamlessly integrated with current codebase with the Web-based graphical front end. The Phoenix framework is to manage GenomicsCloud, the Cloud Computing environment aligned to specific needs of OMIC sciences applications. Performance results of Phoenix indicate that the overhead induced is very less compared with functionalities introduced in this ecosystem.

Keywords

Cloud Computing Virtualization Next-generation sequencing 

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Copyright information

© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013

Authors and Affiliations

  • Guang He
    • 1
  • KaiTian Chen
    • 1
  • XuXiang Chen
    • 1
  • ShiGui Cai
    • 1
  • ShiWen Mao
    • 1
  1. 1.China Mobile Communications GroupGuangdong Co., LtdZhuhaiChina

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