Provision of Infrastructure Cloud Interfaces to Grid sites

StratusLab is investigating how existing Grid infrastructures can provide cloud-like delivery paradigms as well as existing Grid services. The initiative is also exploring novel cloud-like paradigms to access Grid site resources, so also offering Science cloud services. This new resource provisioning model will address the emerging cloud-like usage patterns from several user communities. Public cloud interfaces would allow an alternative access to the virtual infrastructure to support the execution of any application encapsulated in a virtual machine image, being this new functionality fully independent of the Grid stack access.