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Aneka Cloud Platform

Aneka Cloud Platform is a software framework designed for developing distributed applications in cloud environments. It utilizes the computing resources available in a network of workstations, servers, or data centers on-demand. Aneka offers a set of APIs that enable developers to efficiently utilize these resources by expressing application logic through various programming abstractions. It also provides system administrators with tools for monitoring and controlling the deployed infrastructure.

Aneka supports different cloud deployment models, including public, private, and hybrid clouds. Public clouds are accessible to anyone over the internet, private clouds are limited to a specific enterprise with restricted access, and hybrid clouds integrate external resources as needed to enable application scalability.



The framework consists of multiple layers, with Aneka functioning as a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) model. It provides a runtime environment for executing applications by leveraging the underlying cloud infrastructure. Developers can build distributed applications using the Software Development Kit (SDK) or migrate existing legacy applications to the Aneka cloud. These applications are executed within the Aneka cloud, which comprises a collection of interconnected nodes hosting the Aneka container. The container serves as the runtime environment and contains the core functionalities of the system. It can be customized using an extensible collection of services provided by Aneka.

The container is composed of three main classes of services:

Execution Services: Responsible for scheduling and executing applications. Each programming model supported by Aneka has specialized implementations of these services for managing the execution of specific units of work defined in the model.

Foundation Services: Core management services of the Aneka container, including application metering, resource allocation, management of available nodes, and service registry maintenance.

Fabric Services: Lowest level of services in the Aneka stack, providing access to cloud-managed resources. This layer includes the Resource Provisioning Service, which enables horizontal scaling in the cloud, allowing dynamic growth or shrinkage to meet application Quality of Service (QoS) requirements.

The Aneka container interfaces with the underlying host through a platform abstraction layer, making it portable across different runtime environments that support the ECMA specifications (such as the .NET framework or Mono).

Additionally, Aneka provides a cloud management tool that simplifies administrative tasks, allowing easy startup, shutdown, and deployment of Aneka container instances on new resources. It also enables dynamic reconfiguration of the cloud to modify its behavior as needed.

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