Aneka: A Software Platform for .NET-based Cloud Computing

TL;DR

Aneka is a flexible .NET-based cloud computing platform that supports multiple programming models, enabling developers to deploy scalable applications on public or private clouds with advanced resource management features.

Contribution

The paper introduces Aneka, a novel extensible platform that supports multiple programming models and offers comprehensive cloud management services for .NET applications.

Findings

Supports diverse programming models for cloud applications

Provides advanced services like resource reservation and security

Demonstrated with engineering, life science, and industry applications

Abstract

Aneka is a platform for deploying Clouds developing applications on top of it. It provides a runtime environment and a set of APIs that allow developers to build .NET applications that leverage their computation on either public or private clouds. One of the key features of Aneka is the ability of supporting multiple programming models that are ways of expressing the execution logic of applications by using specific abstractions. This is accomplished by creating a customizable and extensible service oriented runtime environment represented by a collection of software containers connected together. By leveraging on these architecture advanced services including resource reservation, persistence, storage management, security, and performance monitoring have been implemented. On top of this infrastructure different programming models can be plugged to provide support for different scenarios as demonstrated by the engineering, life science, and industry applications.