The first PhD thesis R&D as part of CLOUDS Lab was completed in 2006 by Dr. Venugopal who is currently working as a Scientist in IBM. Since then several members have graduated with PhD degree and working in Universities and industrial R&D organizations including IBM, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft around the world. We just achieved a new milestone with the completion of 60th PhD thesis (by Shinu M. Rajagopal) and PhD degree is awarded by Amrita University. Prof. Dr. Supriya M and I served as Thesis Advisors. To access 60th PhD thesis, please browse: 60th PhD thesis

In 2023, CLOUDS Lab had yet another extraordinary year in terms of research quality and international recognition of its members. For more details, please browse our: 2023 Annual Report.

Cybernews Academy featured our PhD student, Hoa Nguyen, on his experiences with research in CLOUDS Lab.. For more details, please browse : Cybernews website.

Australian Research Council has awarded a 3-year grant to Gong, Bondell, Buyya, and Zhang to investigate on Causal Knowledge-Empowered Adaptive Federated Learning. More.

Cybernews Academy featured our PhD student, Duneesha Fernando, on her experiences with research in CLOUDS Lab.. For more details, please browse : Cybernews website.

In 2023, CLOUDS Lab has launched iQuantum Initiative. For more details, please browse our: iQuantum website.

Dr Mohammad Goudarzi has received two "Outstanding PhD Dissertation Awards" from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and the IEEE Technical Committee on Cloud Computing (TCCLD). These awards recognise Goudarzi's thesis titled "Energy and Time Aware Scheduling of Applications in Edge and Fog Computing Environments". . For more details, please browse our: IEEE Thesis Awards.

Members of CLOUDS Lab (Mohammad Goudarzi, Qifan Deng, Rajkumar Buyya) received the 2022 Oracle Excellence's Cloud Architect of the Year Award. For more details, please browse our: Engineering news letter.

Academia Europaea recognized our contributions Cloud computing research and sustained collaboration with European researchers. For more details, please browse our: Engineering news letter.

The next decade stands to see incredible change due to the multiplier effect of various emerging technologies coming together, including AI, ML, IoT and cloud.. For more details, please browse : The Australian Finance Review website.

Prof. Buyya is listed Australia's top 40 lifetime achievers in research, chosen for the consistent excellence of their work and the impact they had in their fields. For more details, please browse : The Australian website.

IEEE Technical Committee on Cloud Computing (IEEE TCCLD) presented its 2021 "Outstanding PhD Thesis Award" to Dr. Shashikant Ilager for his PhD thesis research carried out in our CLOUDS Lab. Citation reads as "For outstanding research on machine learning-based energy and thermal efficient management of Cloud Data Centres". For more details, please browse : IEEE TCCLD website or at UniMelb website.

IEEE Technical Committee on Services Computing (IEEE TCSVC) presented its 2021 "Research Innovation Award" to Dr. Buyya for "for his outstanding pioneering work in cloud computing, technology transfer into startup and major cloud players, and an amazing citation index.". For more details, please browse : IEEE TCSVC website.

The first PhD thesis R&D as part of CLOUDS Lab was completed in 2006 by Dr. Venugopal who is currently working as a Scientist in IBM. Since then several members have graduated with PhD degree and working in R&D organizations including IBM, Google, Amazon, INRIA, and CSIRO around the world. We just achieved a new milestone with the submission of 50th PhD thesis (by Shashikant Ilager). For more details, please browse : 50th PhD thesis

CLOUDS Lab is actively pursuing the application of AI/ML for efficient management of Cloud and Edge computing environments. For more details, please browse : http://clouds.cis.unimelb.edu.au/ai4clouds/

"A Privacy-preserving Mobile and Fog Computing Framework to Trace and Prevent COVID-19 Community Transmission" paper just published in "IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI)".. For more details, please browse : http://cloudbus.org/papers/PrivacyPreservingCOVID-19Tracing.pdf

A Recognition from Clarivate Analytics/Thomson Reuters for contributing multiple Highly Cited Papers during 2008-2018. For more details, please browse : HiCi Certificate

A list of the world's top 2% researchers complied by Stanford University after assessing scientists worldwide for research carried out over their careers across all disciplines ranks Dr. Buyya as #1 for citation impact during the single calendar year 2019 and #2 for career-long citation impact up until the end of 2019 in Distributed Computing area.. For more details, please browse : PLOS paper and citation dataset

A Recognition from the Elsevier Journal of Computer Communications for our paper focus on DDoS Attacks in Cloud Computing Systems.. For more details, please browse : Elsevier Certificate

Prof. Buyya Ranked 1 in Australia and 27 Worldwide (Computer Science and Electronics). For details, please browse : Guide2Research

A Recognition from the Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software for our paper "FogBus: A Blockchain-based Lightweight Framework for Edge and Fog Computing". For more details, please browse : Elsevier Certificate

Researchers in Australian Universities are the best in the world in 14 fields of research, according to new data published on September 24, 2019 in The Australia's 2019 Research Magazine. CLOUDS Lab Director is recognized as the globally leading researcher in "Computing Systems" field. For more details, please browse : The Australian and The 2019 Research Magazine

The first PhD thesis R&D as part of CLOUDS Lab was completed in 2006 by Dr. Venugopal who is currently working as a Scientist in IBM. Since then several members have graduated with PhD degree and working in R&D organizations including Google, Amazon, INRIA, and CSIRO around the world. We just achieved a new milestone with the submission of 40th PhD thesis (by Sara Kardani Moghaddam). For more details, please browse : 40th PhD thesis

Dr Minxian Xu, who recently completed his PhD in CLOUDS Lab, has been awarded the IEEE TCSC Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award to be presented in UK later this year. Dr. Xu's PhD thesis can be accessed from http://cloudbus.org/students/MinxianXuThesis2018.pdf

Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) administered by the Australian Research Council (ARC), in its ERA 2018 evaluation report released recently (late March 2019), offered Distributed Computing research at the University of Melbourne highest rating (5 - "well above" world standard). ERA is Australia's national research evaluation framework that identifies and promotes research excellence in Australia's higher education institutions. This recognises quality and productive contributions of past and present members of the CLOUDS Lab towards Distributed Computing research and innovation @ Melbourne. For more details on ERA 2018, please browse : State of Australian University Research2018-19: ERA National Report and Section 5.

A team of international experts (from Australia, USA, Europe, Brazil, China, India) have put together a 2030 Research Agenda for Cloud computing. A paper on this is now published in Jan 2019 issue of ACM Computing Surveys [ARC ERA 2010-ranked A* Journal] and it can be accessed from: "A Manifesto for Future Generation Cloud Computing: Research Directions for the Next Decade".

Since 2006, CLOUDS Lab has graduated several PhD students who are working in R&D organizations including Google, Amazon, and IBM around the world. Minxian Xu has submitted his thesis on Nov 1, 2018 and will soon join Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology/Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. For more details, please browse : 37th PhD thesis

A Recognition from the IEEE Computer Society (USA) for our paper "Fog Computing: Helping the Internet of Things Realize its Potential". For more details, please browse : IEEE Certificate

The first PhD thesis R&D as part of CLOUDS Lab was completed in 2006 by Dr. Venugopal who is currently working as a Scientist in IBM. Since then several members have graduated with PhD degree and working in R&D organizations including Google, Amazon, and IBM around the world. Jungmin Son and Bowen Zhou submitted their theses on Jan 17 and Jan 24 respectively. For more details, please browse : 32nd and 33rd PhD thesis

Elsevier recognizes achievement of Australia and New Zealand's scientists at Scopus Researcher Awards 2017... More details, please browse : Elsevier press release and New Scientist Magazine article

The first PhD thesis R&D as part of CLOUDS Lab was completed in 2006 by Dr. Venugopal who is currently working as a Scientist in IBM. Since then several members have graduated with PhD degree and working in R&D organizations including Google, Amazon, and IBM around the world. We just achieved a new milestone with the submission of 30th PhD thesis (by Patricia Arroba Garcia who was our external student). For more details, please browse : 31st PhD thesis

...the emerging Fog computing is extending Cloud computing paradigm to edge resources for latency sensitive IoT applications... More details, please browse : UoH Herald article

IT is a prallel development activity for all the fields of engineering, science... More details, please browse : Indian Express article

Cloud Computing is the next big revolution in IT says Melbourne-based Prof. Buyya at an International Seminar in Jamia Millia Islamia; Calls it key to Smart cities and solving big population problems. More details, please browse : News Express of India website

CLOUDS Lab graduate (Maria Sossa) became the 800th graduate research candidate for the year to complete her PhD at the University of Melbourne.. More details, please browse : Melbourne Engineer website

Our Director has been recognized as a "2016 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher" by Thomson Reuters based on Highly Cited Papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and publication year in the Web of Science during the 11-year period 2004-2014. More details, please browse : Thomson Reuters website on HCR

The first PhD thesis R&D as part of CLOUDS Lab was completed in 2006 by Dr. Venugopal who is currently working as a Scientist in IBM. Since then several members have graduated with PhD degree and working in R&D organizations including Google, INRIA, and CSIRO around the world. We just achieved a new milestone with the submission of 25th PhD thesis (by Maria Sossa - we expect her to become Dr. Maria Sossa soon!). For more details, please browse : 25th PhD thesis

Our Director has been awarded the Mahatma Gandhi and Bharat Nirman Awards at the Conference on Economic Growth and National Unity by the Friendship Forum of India. More details, please browse : MUSSE home page

Banks, websites down as wild weather knocks out Amazon Web Services. More details, please browse : AFR home page

On March 24, 2016, we are hosting a seminar by Dr Vijay Bhatkar whose is the Father of Indian Supercomputers; Recipient of Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan awards from the President of India. For more details, please browse our: Seminar Flyer.

This article is actually written by Kristen Goodgame (a Journalist and colleague in Melbourne University) after interviewing our Director. It aims at broader audience. So, we expect everyone to understand it easily. Give it a try:https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/a-blueprint-for-greener-cloud-computing

The first PhD thesis R&D as part of CLOUDS Lab was completed in 2006 by Dr. Venugopal who is currently working as a Scientist in IBM. Since then several members have graduated with PhD degree and working in R&D organizations including Google, INRIA, and CSIRO around the world. In Aug 2015, we achieved a new milestone with the submission of 20th PhD thesis (by Deepak Poola - we expect him to become Dr. Poola soon!). For more details, please browse : 20th PhD thesis

Bidar-born professor's book on cloud computing a hit in China. For more details, please browse : The Hindu article

The University of Melbourne is a world leader in cloud computing research according to a recent paper, A Scientific Analysis of Cloud Computing Literature. For more details, please browse: Melbourne Staff News and The Melbourne Engineer website

Our Director presented a seminar on "Market-Oriented Cloud Computing and Big Data Applications" for Microsoft Corporation, Seattle, USA. For more details, please browse: Seminar Video

City Bhaskar, an Indian Hindi Newspaper, reports on potential of Cloud computing. For more details, please browse our: clip of news article.

CLOUDS Lab continues its strong focus on BigData technologies and applications. For more details, please browse our: recent/2013 Tech Report

CLOUDS Lab is a founding member of IEEE InterCloud project for developing cloud-to-cloud interoperability and federation capabilities to enable cloud services to become as ubiquitous and as mainstream as the Internet. More...

A linkage project with CA on "Business goals and analytics driven management of cloud computing" is successful 2013-2016. More...

From 2000 to 2008, ISI Highly Cited highlighted the people behind the some of the world's most influential research. Our Director, Prof. Buyya, is one of them in Computer Science area. More...

Tata McGraw Hill has published the Indian edition of Mastering Cloud Computing book. International edition is on its way to be published and released by Elsevier/Morgan Kaufmann in May 2013.. More...

Rajkumar Buyya, director of our CLOUDS Lab, has been named editor in chief of IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, IEEE Computer Society's newest peer-reviewed journal.. More...

The Australian Research Council (ARC) awards a Discovery Project grant to Prof. Buyya and team for conducting R&D in green cloud computing area. More...

Our Lab Director awarded Future Fellowship from the Australian Research Council (ARC) for R&D in Cloud Computing from 2012-2016. More...

The Cloudbus Project to Release CloudSim Toolkit 3.0. . More...

The Aneka technology was originally developed in our CLOUDS Lab and subsequently commercialised by spin-off company Manjrasoft is selected for 2011 Telstra Innovation Challenge, People's Choice Award. More....

Australian Research Council has awarded a 3-year grant to Professors Palani and Buyya to investigate on creation of Smart Cities using Internet of Things (IoT) and Cloud Computing technologies. We also received another grant to building an associated IoT Testbed facility at national level. More....

Pioneering research at The University of Melbourne's Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering is leading the next wave of computing. More....

IEEE SCALE 2011 Award for enabling LIGO Data-Analysis Application on Cloud Computing Environment More... and also see UniMelb news

University of Westminster collaborates with the University of Melbourne in the area of Cloud Computing. More...

Imagine you have a small business catering to between 50 and 1000 customers per day, with most of them being your regular customers. You want to keep track of their choices.. More...

Manjrasoft was registered in 2008 to commercialise Aneka, and had inked deals with customers in the transport and engineering industries in China and India. More...

When Anton Beloglazov left Siberia to take up postgraduate study in Melbourne CLOUDS Lab, he thought he’d be heading south of – not around – the world. Winning an IBM research internship has broadened his horizons. . More...

The Cloudbus Project has been selected as one of the three Finalists for Google Australia Eureka Prize for Innovation in Computer Science. More...

The 2010 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WorldComp 2010) held in Las Vegas, USA presented Outstanding Achievement Award to the leader of CLOUDS lab. More...

Our paper " A Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO)-based Heuristic for Scheduling Workflow Applications in Cloud Computing Environments" received the Best Paper Award at IEEE AINA 2010 conference held in Perth, Australia. More...

Prof Raj Buyya has received a finalist award in the "Scopus Young Researcher of the Year 2010" awards in the category of Engineering and Technology. More...

Australian Research Council has awarded a 3-year grant to Dr. Buyya to investigate on InterClouds supporting application scaling across multiple Clouds. More...

A CLOUDS Lab student, William Voorsluys, receives an extremely prestigious and competative Research Fellowship award from Microsoft Research Asia. The fellowship comes with (1)A cash award of US$6,000.00, (2) A plaque celebrating the award, and (3) the opportunity for an internship in MSRA Lab. More...

Since 2007, GRIDS Lab has been working on Cloud Computing along with Grid Computing. During the last 2 years, Cloud Computing related R&D activities have peaked in GRIDS Lab and we launched a new flagship project, called Cloudbus, for Cloud Computing. In recognition of this new thrust in Cloud Computing, we renamed GRIDS Lab as CLOUDS Lab!

A reality check on the new and the hyped cloud computing... More...

Our work on fMRI Brain Image Analysis on Amazon EC2 and S3 Clouds using Workflow Engine won 2nd prize at IEEE International Scalable Computing Challenge (SCALE 2009)... More...

Cloud computing is tipped to nudge $A200 billion a year by 2013, but who pays for it is the question that concerns a newly decorated Melbourne researcher... More...

Our paper "Scheduling Parallel Applications on Utility Grids: Time and Cost Trade-off Management" received Best Paper Awards at ACSC 2009 conference in New Zealand. More...

Our paper "A Linear Programming Driven Genetic Algorithm for Meta-Scheduling on Utility Grids" received Best Paper Award at ADCOM 2008 conference. More...

Manjrasoft is charged with commercializing the grid and cloud computing software technologies of Gridbus developed by GRIDS Lab. More...

Provost of University of Melbourne presented Dream Large Knowledge Trannsfer grant to students of GRIDS Lab for showcashing and sharing their research to empower emerging economies. More...

Australian Research Council and Platform Corporation support GRIDS LAB research in Cloud Computing and SLA oriented resource allocation. More...

The "Content Delivery Networks" published by Springer is just released.... More...

We are pleased to release SensorWeb 2.0 software, which supports unification of Sensor Networks and Grid Computing with the World-Wide Web.... More...

Associate Professor Rajkumar Buyya has been awarded a Distinguished Service Award by the IEEE Computer Society... More...

GRIDS Lab is pleased to report on its key activities and outcomes during the academic year 2007, which has been a fantastic year for both the lab and its members.. More...

Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia (CORE) presented Outstanding Research Contribution Award to the GRIDS Lab Director. More...

Members of Gridbus Project received two awards at e-Science 2007. Best Paper Award and Best Research Demo Award. More...

The University of Melbourne Vice Chancellor, Professor Glyn Davis, has presented Knowledge Transfer Award to the Gridbus Project. More...

GRIDS Lab members are editing two books: Market Oriented Grid Computing (Wiley) and Content Delivery Networks (Springer).

According to Journal of Information and Software Technology one of our article (published in 2002) has made it to the Top 20 Most Cited articles published in the Last 20 Years (ranking based on citations per year) in Software Engineering (field). Please see Table B2 on page 10 and 11 in report...

A Novel Software System for .NET based Enterprise Grid Computing project R&D funded. More...

In the recent past, world-wide several efforts have been initiated to enhance grid computing with capabilities that support Quality of Services, service level agreements (SLA), utility-oriented allocation of Grid resources to SLA dynamically. More...

GRIDS lab leads an Australian Govt. funded project (Utility Grid Project) and links Australian researchers with international researchers... More...

Delivering the keynote address on "The Gridbus Middleware for Utility-Oriented Grid Computing"', Rajkumar Buyya, Director of the Grid Computing and Distributed Systems, University of Melbourne, Australia said that next to the four essential utility grids, grid computing would constitute the fifth utility... More...

Dr Buyya spoke to the Indus Age on his research, IT and India. More

A pioneer in grid computing is now looking beyond the stars... Check out the article in the age. or the local copy

Our founder named Storage Technology corporation Fellow of Grid Computing at the University of Melbourne. Check out the Age story! (a local copy) and also GridToday story.