OCEAN - The Open Computation Exchange and Arbitration Network

Introduction

OCEAN (Open Computation Exchange and Auctioning Network) provides software infrastructure to support automated commercial buying and selling of dynamic distributed computing resources over the Internet. OCEAN aims to build a marketplace where resources like CPU time, associated memory usage and network bandwidth are the traded commodities. The major components of such a market are the users, the computational resources associated with them, and the underlying market mechanisms that facilitate the trade.

The goals of OCEAN are twofold: (1) Anyone who has underutilized computational resources should be able to easily deploy OCEAN servers which can run other people's computing tasks for profit, and (2) Any user, with a credit card number (or other means of automated payment), should be easily able to buy resources for his/her distributed or parallel applications.

More details at OCEAN main web site

Architecture

Publications (my contributions)

Pradeep Padala et al. OCEAN: The Open Computation Exchange and Arbitration Network, A Market Approach to Meta Computing, In proceedings of International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC) [PDF]
Pradeep Padala and Michael P. Frank. Design of a Self-evolving Scalable Matching Network for OCEAN. Accepted at International Conference On High Performance Computing (HiPC'03), Dec 2003 (poster paper) [PDF]
Shashank Shetty, Pradeep Padala and Michael P. Frank. A Survey of Market-Based Approaches to Distributed Computing, University of Florida, Technical Report TR03-013, Jul, 2003. [PDF]