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Streaming Legacy Desktop Software from the Cloud

Authors:
Youhui Zhang
Gelin Su
Weimin Zheng

Keywords: Cloud computing; user-space file system; OS-level virtualization

Abstract:
Desktop Cloud can enhance business agility and reduce the total-cost-of -ownership, it introduces long network latencies and the power of local PCs cannot be utilized fully. This paper presents a light-weight mode for desktop cloud, which stores legacy desktop software in the cloud storage while streaming and running them on the user’s PC locally. In details, based on the light-weight virtualization, software can be converted into portable counterparts and stored in the cloud. Moreover, a run-time system is implemented, including a user-space file-system for cloud, to stream and run the remote software on local machines. Local cache and data pre-fetch mechanisms are also adjusted to suit the file-access-pattern of software. This prototype has been implemented and tests show it is practical for much daily-used software.

Pages: 130 to 136

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2010

Publication date: October 25, 2010

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4499

ISBN: 978-1-61208-101-4

Location: Florence, Italy

Dates: from October 25, 2010 to October 30, 2010