myTrustedCloud: Towards a virtual private cloud

当前大量的云基础设施，无论是在公共空间还是私人空间内，都使大量的研究能够将其计算需求转移到这种新的范式中。尽管有一系列用例不能利用这种新的范例，但很明显，这将改善对它们可用的计算和数据资源的提供。通过我们将要使用的试点能源应用，以及高级计量基础设施的提供，状态监测和分布式状态估计我们将证明，在系统内利用硬件信任来证明状态，并识别数据和算法及其托管虚拟实例，这意味着这个高价值的至关重要的系统可以利用云计算。具体输出还将包括使用IaaS云系统的详细威胁分析以及可信平台在系统内允许的具体对策，这是一个示范软件框架，能源研究人员可以在充分利用云计算的同时开始利用商业敏感信息。这一框架将被记录在案，以便其他研究领域也能够利用该项目在医学和社会研究等敏感领域的研究结果，这两个领域传统上对数据有着极其严格的限制。

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.