The thesis presents the concept of virtualization and cloud computing. It focuses on the
infrastructure as a service model of cloud computing, which enables customers to set up their
own virtualized infrastructure. The thesis takes a closer look at the Virtual Computing Lab,
which was developed at the State University of North Carolina in order to provide students
and researchers with remote access to computing resources. OpenStack, an open-source
software cloud computing platform is also presented. Despite offering a wide array of
services, it does not have the option of time-limited computing resource reservations as
provided by Virtual Computing Lab. Therefore, the option of integrating the two systems is
considered and a module is presented for the Virtual Computing Lab upgrade, which enables
users to provide compute resources from a private cloud built on the OpenStack platform.
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