1. Cloud Computing for Digital Libraries
PROBLEM AIMS
• Increasing volumes of • Move DL systems to an
information e.g. research on-demand paradigm.
documents, theses, dissert • Investigate if there is linear
ations, etc. scalability when the
• Available information demand for data and
storage and dissemination services increases.
technologies do not scale
efficiently on-demand. Complete!
Phase I
• Test-drive different cloud
Phase II computing technologies
• Implementation of a e.g. Amazon Web
prototype DL system using Services, Eucalyptus.
different cloud computing • Deploy Eucalyptus on a
architectures, e.g. cluster.
proxy, redirector, round- • Design of a prototype DL
robin and client-side. system.
• Evaluation of the prototype
DL system.
Expected Outcomes
• Prototype scalable digital
library system.
• A proven set of
experimental guidelines
required to move DLs to a
different paradigm.
University of Cape Town
Lebeko Poulo Hussein Suleman
Department of lpoulo@cs.uct.ac.za hussein@cs.uct.ac.za
Computer Science Digital Libraries Laboratory