Hypertool: A Resource Abstraction and Lifecycle Management Framework for Heterogeneous Cloud Environments

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Michalis Loukeris, Nektarios Deligiannakis, Vassilis Papataxiarhis, Panagiotis Kechriniotis, Syed Mafooq Ul Hassan, Nicolas Louca, Herodotos Herodotou, Stathes Hadjiefthymiades

Orchestrating modern applications across distributed cloud environments requires a unified, platform-agnostic representation of heterogeneous computational resources and a tool to automate their management. 

This paper presents an open-source framework, Hypertool, designed to automate node registration, discovery, and lifecycle management. Additionally, it provides an extensible model that enhances the default node representation with additional attributes, such as hardware acceleration, energy efficiency, and security posture, which are vital for next-generation workloads.

The paper was presented at "The Seventeenth International Conference on Cloud Computing, GRIDs, and Virtualization - CLOUD COMPUTING 2026" (April 19 to April 23, 2026 - Lisbon, Portugal) during the Special Track "Hyper-CC: Hyper-Distributed Systems and Applications for the Computing Continuum".