Kittyhawk: Enabling cooperation and competition in a global, shared computational system
by J. Appavoo,
V. Uhlig,
A. Waterland,
B. Rosenburg,
D. Da Silva,
and J. E. Moreira
Kittyhawk represents our vision for a Web-scale computational
resource that can accommodate a significant fraction of the world’s
computation needs and enable various parties to compete and
cooperate in the provisioning of services on a consolidated
platform. In this paper, we explain both the vision and the system
architecture that supports it. We demonstrate these ideas by way of
a prototype implementation that uses the IBM Blue Gene®/P
platform. In the Kittyhawk prototype, we define a set of basic
services that enable the allocation and interconnection of
computing resources. By using examples, we show how higher
layers of services can be built by using our basic services and
standard open-source software.
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