Details of Grant 

EPSRC Reference:	EP/I03436X/1
Title:	myTrustedCloud: Towards a virtual private cloud
Principal Investigator:	Wallom, Professor D
Other Investigators:	Martin, Professor A Taylor, Professor G
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Department:	Oxford e-Research Centre
Organisation:	University of Oxford
Scheme:	Standard Research
Starts:	01 February 2011	Ends:	14 October 2011	Value (£):	48,981
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Computer Sys. & Architecture eScience
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	Energy
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Panel History:	Panel Date Panel Name Outcome 09 Dec 2010 Cloud Computing for Research Announced
Summary on Grant Application Form
The current profusion of cloud infrastructures, built both within the public but also private space have enabled a significant body of research to move their computational requirements into this new paradigm. There are though a collection of usecases that are not able to make use of this new paradigm though it is clear that this would improve the provision of computational and data resources available to them. With the pilot energy applications that we are going to use, looking at the provision of Advanced Metering Infrastructure, Condition Monitoring and Distributed State Estimation we will prove that the utilisation of hardware trust within the system for attestation of state and identification of both the data and algorithms and their hosting virtual instances would mean that this high value critically important system could utilise cloud computing.Specific outputs will also include a detailed threat analysis of using IaaS cloud systems and the specific countermeasures that trusted platform allow within the system, an exemplar software framework in which energy researchers are able to start making use of commercially sensitive information while at the same time make full use of cloud computing. This framework will be documented such that other research areas will also be able to make use of the findings within the project in such sensitive areas as medical and social research, both of whom have traditionally extremely tight restrictions on data.
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