Dr. Buyya and Cloud Computing

Melbourne CLOUDS Lab’s 2023 Annual Report March 19, 2024

Dear Colleagues:

On behalf of Melbourne CLOUDS Lab, I am pleased to share 2023 Annual Report detailing its R&D activities, outcomes, and community services. For full report, please visit:
http://cloudbus.org/reports/CLOUDS-Lab-AnnualReport2023.pdf
http://clouds.cis.unimelb.edu.au/reports/CLOUDS-Lab-AnnualReport2023.pdf

The highlights of our research activities and outcomes in 2023 are:

• The Lab successfully attracted ARC Discovery Project along with involvement in two large projects (especially Zero Net Emissions CRC for Agriculture).
• Members of the CLOUDS Lab have authored 40 publications, which include 26 journal papers and 10 conference papers.
• The Lab’s flagship Cloudbus Project has released various new modules for CloudSim, iFogSim, and Fogbus. iFogSim, building on CloudSim, has emerged as a de-facto toolkit for modelling and simulation of Fog and Edge computing environments. We released two new Quantum computing software systems (qFaaS and iQuantum). They have been used by several researchers in academia and industries around the world.
• Members have presented over 40 invited talks that include 14 keynotes delivered at international conferences/events held in Australia, India, China, USA, and France.
• The Lab successfully hosted research activities of over 25 scholars, which include 19 PhD students and 3 Visiting Research Fellows.
• In 2023 alone, our papers have attracted over 10100 citations (ref: Google Scholar). Two of our papers received Best Paper Awards.
• IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (IEEE TCSC) presented its 2023 “Outstanding PhD Thesis Award” to Dr. Samodha Pallewatta for her PhD thesis.
• We are recognised as the Top Researcher in “Software Systems” field (highest cited in top 20 journals over the past five years), The Australian Research Magazine 2024, The Australian, November 10, 2023.
• A list of the world’s top 2% researchers complied by Stanford University after assessing scientists worldwide for research carried out over their careers across all disciplines ranks us as #1 for citation impact during the single calendar year 2022 and #2 for career-long citation impact up until the end of 2022 in Distributed Computing area.

I wish you all a peaceful, healthy, safe, and spiritually enlightened rest of the year 2023.

Take care.

Best regards
Raj

CLOUDS Lab @ Melbourne Releases Quantum Computing Simulator 1.0 September 4, 2023

The Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Lab and its iQuantum Initiative for Quantum Computing at the University of Melbourne is delighted to release an open source software for modelling and simulation of Quantum Computing environments.

iQuantum Initiative: Recent breakthroughs in Quantum hardware are creating opportunities for its use in many applications. However, Quantum software engineering is still in its infancy with many challenges, especially dealing with the diversity of Quantum programming languages and hardware platforms. To alleviate these challenges, our iQuantum Initiative at the University of Melbourne is investigating fundamental research challenges and developing software systems and tools for the advancement of Quantum Computing paradigm by supporting (1) rapid creation of applications and their deployments and (2) modelling and simulation of quantum computing environments.

As quantum computers become increasingly accessible through cloud services and potentially extend to edge networks in the future, the demand for efficient resource management strategies is paramount to ensure the efficient utilization of quantum computing resources. However, the limitations of employing practical quantum computing resources and the lack of quantum environment modeling toolkits have hindered the design and evaluation of quantum resource management policies. To address this challenge, we developed iQuantum, a lightweight and versatile discrete-event modeling and simulation toolkit (based on CloudSim 6.0) for quantum computing environments. iQuantum provides a set of quantum computing entities that can be customized and extended to support a wide range of different hybrid quantum computing environments, supporting research in quantum resource management (e.g., task scheduling, backend selection, hybrid task orchestration), designing and prototyping of quantum computing systems.

These days many commercial vendors are offering access to Quantum processors as part of their Cloud services. Therefore, iQuantum simulator capabilities integrated/developed with CloudSim framework provides immediate opportunity for Cloud researchers to include Quantum Processing Units (QPUs) in their research on resource management and application scheduling. Thus, Cloud researchers can become rapid innovators/contributors to this emerging field of Quantum Computing.

A link for downloading iQuantum technologies from:

http://clouds.cis.unimelb.edu.au/iquantum/

A direct link for downloading iQuantum simulator:

https://github.com/Cloudslab/iQuantum

Melbourne CLOUDS Lab’s 2022 Annual Report March 27, 2023

Dear Colleagues:

On behalf of Melbourne CLOUDS Lab, I am pleased to share 2022 Annual Report detailing its R&D activities, outcomes, and community services. For full report, please visit:
http://cloudbus.org/reports/CLOUDS-Lab-AnnualReport2022.pdf
http://clouds.cis.unimelb.edu.au/reports/CLOUDS-Lab-AnnualReport2022.pdf

The highlights of our research activities and outcomes in 2022 are:

• The Lab successfully hosted ARC research projects (Discovery and Linkage Infrastructure Projects) along with hosting two new research projects.
• Members of the CLOUDS Lab have authored 69 publications, which include 52 journal papers. You can access full version of most of our papers from: http://clouds.cis.unimelb.edu.au/publications-years.html
• The Lab’s flagship Cloudbus Project has released various new modules for Aneka, CloudSim, iFogSim, and Fogbus. iFogSim, building on CloudSim, has emerged as a de-facto toolkit for modelling and simulation of Fog and Edge computing environments. It has been used by several researchers in academia and industries around the world.
• Members have presented over 45 invited talks that include 23 keynotes delivered at international conferences/events held in Australia, India, Portugal, Italy, Thailand, China, and USA.
• The Lab successfully hosted research activities of over 25 scholars, which include 19 PhD students and 2 Research Fellows.
• IEEE Technical Committee on Cloud Computing (IEEE TCCLD) presented its 2022 “Outstanding PhD Thesis Award” to Dr. Mohammad Goudarzi for his PhD thesis.
• We are recognised as the Top Researcher in “Computing Systems” and “Software Systems” field (highest cited in top 20 journals over the past five years), The Australian Research Magazine 2023, The Australian, November 10, 2022.
• A list of the world’s top 2% researchers complied by Stanford University after assessing scientists worldwide for research carried out over their careers across all disciplines ranks us as #1 for citation impact during the single calendar year 2021 and #2 for career-long citation impact up until the end of 2021 in Distributed Computing area.

I wish you all a peaceful, healthy, safe, and spiritually enlightened rest of the year 2022.

Take care.

Best regards
Raj

Melbourne CLOUDS Lab’s 2020 Annual Report March 31, 2021

Dear All:

On behalf of Melbourne CLOUDS Lab, I am pleased to share 2020 Annual Report detailing its R&D activities, outcomes, and community services. For full report, please visit:
http://cloudbus.org/reports/CLOUDS-Lab-AnnualReport2020.pdf

The highlights of our research activities and outcomes in 2020 are:

* The Lab successfully hosted ARC research projects (Discovery and Linkage Infrastructure Projects) along with hosting two new research projects.
* Members of the CLOUDS Lab have authored 58 publications, which include 36 journal papers and 12 conference papers.
* Three of our papers received “Best Paper Awards” from IEEE/ACM and Elsevier.
* The Lab’s flagship Cloudbus Project has released various new modules for Aneka, CloudSim, iFogSim, and Fogbus. iFogSim, building on CloudSim, has emerged as a de-facto toolkit for modelling and simulation of Fog and Edge computing environments. It has been used by several researchers in academia and industries around the world.
* Members have presented over 26 invited talks that include 19 keynotes delivered at international conferences/seminars held in Australia, India, Singapore, and China.
* The Lab successfully hosted research activities of over 25 scholars, which include 16 PhD students and 3 Research Fellows.
* In 2020 alone, our papers have attracted over 10700 citations (ref: Google Scholar) and we hope this trend will continue!
* The Lab housed several (short and long term) international visitors (academics and PhD students) from China, India, and Norway,

I wish you all a peaceful, healthy and safe rest of the year 2021.

Take care.

Best regards
Raj

Melbourne CLOUDS Lab’s 2019 Annual Report March 22, 2020

Dear All:

On behalf of Melbourne CLOUDS Lab and the Cloudbus Project, I am pleased to share 2019 Annual Report detailing its R&D activities, outcomes, and community services. For full report, please visit:
http://www.cloudbus.org/reports/CLOUDS-Lab-AnnualReport2019.pdf

The highlights of our research activities and outcomes in 2019 are:

* The CLOUDS Lab successfully hosted  ARC research projects (Discovery and Linkage Projects) along with attracting two new research grants. All our publications can be accessed from:
http://cloudbus.org/publications-years.html

* The Lab’s flagship Cloudbus Project has released various new modules for Aneka, CloudSim, iFogSim, and Fogbus. iFogSim, building on CloudSim, has emerged as a de-facto toolkit for modelling and simulation of Fog and Edge computing environments. It has been used by several researchers in academia and industries around the world.

* Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) administered by the Australian Research Council (ARC), in its ERA 2018 evaluation report released in March 2019, offered Distributed Computing research at the University of Melbourne highest rating (5 – “well above” the world standard).

* Members have presented over 40 invited talks that include 12 keynotes delivered at international conferences/seminars held in Australia, India, Indonesia, Mauritius, Ireland, and UK.

* “2019 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher” recognition from Thomson Reuters; and “Best of the World” in Computing Systems field (for quality, volume, and impact) recognition by the 2019 Australian Research Magazine.

* The Lab housed several (short and long term) international visitors (academics and PhD students) from China, Iran, India, Italy, and Norway,

I wish you all a peaceful, healthy and safe rest of the year 2020.

Take care.

Best regards
Raj

Melbourne CLOUDS Lab’s 2018 Annual Report March 12, 2019

On behalf of Melbourne CLOUDS Lab and the Cloudbus Project, I am pleased to share 2018 Annual Report detailing its R&D activities, outcomes, and community services. For full report, please visit:
http://www.cloudbus.org/reports/CLOUDS-Lab-AnnualReport2018.pdf

The highlights of our research activities and outcomes in 2018 are:

* The CLOUDS Lab successfully hosted two ARC research projects (Discovery and Linkage Projects) along with two industry funded projects. All our publications can be accessed from:
http://cloudbus.org/publications-years.html

* The Lab’s flagship Cloudbus Project has released various new modules for Aneka, CloudSim, iFogSim, and Fogbus. The iFogSim building on CloudSim is emerging as a de-facto Toolkit for modelling and simulation of Fog and Edge computing environments. It has been used by several researchers in academia and industries around the world.

* Members have presented over 26 invited talks that include 6 keynotes delivered at international conferences/seminars held in Australia, India, Indonesia, Mauritius, China, Italy, and France.

* “2018 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher” recognition from Thomson Reuters for a team member!

* The Lab housed several (short and long term) international visitors (academic and PhD students) from India, China, Germany, Estonia, Slovenia, and UK.

Wish you all a happy, peaceful, and prosperous rest of the year 2019.

Best regards
Raj

A Manifesto for Future Generation Cloud Computing: Research Directions for the Next Decade November 23, 2018

A team of international experts (from Australia, USA, Europe, Brazil, China, India) have put together a 2030 Research Agenda for Cloud computing. A paper on this is now published in ACM Computing Surveys (November 2018 issue) as:
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A Manifesto for Future Generation Cloud Computing: Research Directions for the Next Decade
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Please check out:
https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3241737

Full version can be downloaded from:
http://www.buyya.com/papers/CloudManifesto.pdf

Bib details:

Rajkumar Buyya, Satish Narayana Srirama, Giuliano Casale, Rodrigo Calheiros, Yogesh Simmhan, Blesson Varghese, Erol Gelenbe, Bahman Javadi, Luis Miguel Vaquero, Marco A. S. Netto, Adel Nadjaran Toosi, Maria Alejandra Rodriguez, Ignacio M. Llorente, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Pierangela Samarati, Dejan Milojicic, Carlos Varela, Rami Bahsoon, Marcos Dias de Assuncao, Omer Rana, Wanlei Zhou, Hai Jin, Wolfgang Gentzsch, Albert Zomaya, and Haiying Shen, A Manifesto for Future Generation Cloud Computing: Research Directions for the Next Decade, ACM Computing Surveys, Volume 51, No. 5, Article No. 105, Pages: 1-38, ISSN 0360-0300, ACM Press, New York, USA, November 2018.

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CLOUDS Lab’s 2017 Annual Report March 29, 2018

On behalf of CLOUDS Lab and the Cloudbus Project, I am pleased to share
2017 Annual Report detailing its R&D activities, outcomes, and community
services. For full report, please visit:

Click to access CLOUDS-Lab-AnnualReport2017.pdf

The highlights of research activities and outcomes in 2017 are:

* The CLOUDS Lab successfully hosted two ARC research projects (Discovery and Linkage Projects) along with two industry funded projects.

* The Lab’s flagship Cloudbus Project has released various new modules for Aneka, CloudSim and iFogSim. The iFogSim building on CloudSim is emerging as a de-facto Toolkit for modelling and simulation of Fog and Edge computing environments. It has been used by several researchers in academia and industries around the world.

* Members have presented over 40 invited talks that include 13 keynotes delivered at international conferences/seminars held in Australia, India, Indonesia, Mauritius, and UK.

* The Lab successfully hosted research activities of over 25 scholars, which include 16 PhD students and 4 Research Fellows.

* “2017 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher” recognition from Thomson Reuters for a team member!

* The Lab housed several (short and long term) international visitors (academic and PhD students) from India, China, Germany, Estonia, and UK.

Wish you all a happy, peaceful, and prosperous rest of the year 2017.

Best regards
Raj