There exists a wide variety of technologies which allow for remote desktop access, data transfer, encryption, and worldwide communication through the Internet. These technologies, while independently solving unique problems, can be combined into a project which would resolve all of the unique problems with one single system. Youngstown State University's Chemistry Department required a high reliability unified system to provide remote access, web cam feeds, user security, and encrypted file transfer for computer equipment operating scientific instrumentation. A suitable software project solution was developed at Youngstown State University in collaboration with Zethus Software through analysis of technological resources and project requirements, and a process of software development.
This thesis describes the cumulus::CyberLab project developed in order to resolve the above requirements. The cumulus::CyberLab project allows students, faculty, and scientists to remotely access millions of dollars of scientific equipment offered by our university from anywhere in the world. To best describe this project, this thesis outlines the overview of the project, work in the project, and how this project created unique software which is valuable to not only our university but also to other worldwide users.