ABSTRACT
FutureGrid is sponsored by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0910812 to Indiana University for "FutureGrid: An Experimental, High-Performance Grid Test-bed." Partners in the FutureGrid project include U. Chicago, U. Florida, San Diego Supercomputer Center – UC San Diego, U. Southern California, U. Texas at Austin, U. Tennessee at Knoxville, U. Virginia, T-U. Dresden, and Grid5000. One of the unique aspects of FutureGrid is that it is targeted not only toward the use of high-performance computing but also toward the integration of clouds and grids. In contrast to the traditional offering of supercomputer centers, FutureGrid provides a variety of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) frameworks on its resources. A critical component of FutureGrid is the ability to monitor the expected behavior of its systems and services. This is especially important because of the experimental nature of the FutureGrid mission. The FutureGrid provided a scalable geographically distributed environment in which to measure the Sensor Cloud system performance.
