CloneCloud

CloneCloud uses nearby computers or data centers to speed up your smart phone applications, bringing the power of the cloud computing to your finger tips. Currently, we are exploring polymorphic execution that makes it possible to execute applications of resource-starved devices such as smart-phones by opportunistically off-loading computation to available cloud resources in nearby datacenters. The idea is simple: clone the entire set of data and applications from the smart-phone onto the cloud and selectively execute some operations on the clones, reintegrating the results back into the smart-phone. One can have multiple clones for the same smart-phone, clones pretending to be more powerful smart-phones, etc. CloneCloud makes smart phones more powerful, more secure, more reliable, and more power-efficient. We can execute very expensive operations via cloud cloning such as object recognition, virus scanning and data leak detection (a) without requiring application designers to explicitly plan for cloning, (b) without eating up the smart-phone's battery power, and (c) with significant performance improvement.

People

• Byung-Gon Chun, Intel Labs Berkeley (CloneCloud lead)
  
• Petros Maniatis, Intel Labs Berkeley

• Sunghwan Ihm, Princeton University
• Mayur Naik, Intel Labs Berkeley

Publications

• Byung-Gon Chun and Petros Maniatis. Dynamically Partitioning Applications between Weak Devices and Clouds. Proceedings of the 1st ACM Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing and Services (MCS 2010), June 2010. [PDF]
• Byung-Gon Chun and Petros Maniatis. Augmented Smart Phone Applications Through Clone Cloud Execution. Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS XII), May 2009. [PDF]

Talks

• Byung-Gon Chun. Dynamically Partitioning Applications between Weak Devices and Clouds. 1st ACM Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing and Services (MCS 2010), June 2010. [PDF]
• Byung-Gon Chun. CloneCloud: Augmented Smart Phone Applications Through Clone Cloud Execution. 12th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS XII), May 2009. [PDF]

Press
Sending Cell Phones into the Cloud. MIT Technology Review
Intel clones your phone in the cloud (Data center in your pocket). The Register.
CloneCloud offloads phone tasks to remote servers. Electronista.
Mobile Phone Processing As A Service? CloudAve.
CloneCloud: The Power of Cloud Computing Comes to Mobile Phones. ReadWriteWeb.
CloneCloud: Solving the Problem with Mobile Phones. Phandroid.
CloneCloud Takes on Heavy Lifting for Smartphones. MobileRoar.
Fast Mobile Face Recognition Demonstrated using CloneCloud. ComputerVisionCentral.
The Next Wave of Computing: One Device to Rule them All? Zmogo.
Intel Concept Marries Smartphones and Cloud Computing. Rethink-Wireless.
CloneCloud: Is this the New Direction for Mobile Applications? TelecomTV.
Intel Working on Clone Cloud for MIDs and Smartphones. DarkVisionHardware.
3rd Rebirth of Computing: The End of PCs and Game Consoles. TechNewsWorld.
Inside Intel's Top Secret Lab. ITManagement.
Intel's Clone Cloud: Increase the IQ of Your Smart Phone. Intel Innovation.
Clone in a Cloud, A concept of Cloud Computing. Hardware Insight.