Enabling Distributed Computing Systems with ElopTM

In the era of Internet, one of the most ultimate goals is that users can seamlessly access to any computing application or service at anywhere anytime. Computing infrastructuralization is the path to gradually address the challenge. In this work, elop computing is proposed that encapsulates and integrates various computing elements as services, benefiting from existing advanced computing technology, e.g. virtualization and SaaS. Higher levels of services are also provided, e.g. metadata management, resource management and scheduling, security and authorization, which can be utilized to build distributed computing systems in a scalable way. In this paper, the architecture of elop computing is illustrated and corresponding middleware implementation is introduced in details. A typical scenario is given to demonstrate the potential of enabling distributed computing systems with elopTM.