Welcome to AEOLUS
The recent explosive growth of the
Internet gives rise to the possibility of a global computer of
grand-scale consisting of Internet-connected computing entities
(possibly mobile, with varying computational capabilities, connected
among them with different communication media), globally available and
able to provide to its users a rich menu of high-level integrated
services that make use of its aggregated computational power, storage
space, and information resources. Achieving this efficiently and
transparently is a major challenge that can be overcome by introducing
an intermediate layer, the overlay computer.
The goal of AEOLUS is to investigate the principles and develop the algorithmic methods for building such an overlay computer that enables this efficient and transparent access to the resources of an Internet-based global computer.