The goal of the ERODS team is to study the construction and the management of Cloud systems. We identify the following specific scientific goals:

 

· Self-management. Our goal is to integrate automation within Cloud environments with the intent to provide controllable SLA criteria for performance and robustness.

 

· Distributed runtime support. Our goal is to provide system support to build efficient and robust Cloud infrastructures.

 

· Virtual machines. Our goal is to revisit the design of virtual machines by collapsing different virtualization layers (high-level virtual machine, middleware, operating system, and hypervisor) into one modular platform.