The DSA (Distributed Systems Architecture) Research Group at Complutense University of Madrid conducts research in advanced distributed computing and virtualization technologies for large-scale infrastructures and resource provisioning platforms.

Ongoing research lines address the challenges of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Cloud Computing:

• Cloud architectures
• Energy-efficient cloud computing
• Cloud federation and interoperability
• High Performance Computing (HPC) clouds

DSA-Research group is a core partner and leader of the Activity on Management of Virtual Machines in the RESERVOIR project, flagship of European research initiatives in virtualized infrastructures and cloud computing; leads the OpenNebula Cloud Toolkit, widely used open-source technology to build cloud infrastructures; and is a co-founder of the OGF Working Group on Cloud Computing Interface. The results of the research have been published in several leading publications on virtualization and cloud computing, and members of the group participate in the Program Committee of the most important workshops and conference in the research field.

The Strategy section describes the complete research profile of the group since its foundation in 2002.

Our blog

• blog.dsa-research.org

Technologies

• OpenNebula Virtual Infrastructure Engine

Main Research Projects

• RESERVOIR: Resources and Services Virtualization without Barriers
• StratusLab: Enhancing Grid Infrastructures with Cloud Computing