Dynamically organizing cloud computing resources to facilitate discovery

A system for organizing computing resources so as to discover them comprising:

• resource cataloging hardware on which a catalog of different computing resource providers and their computing resources is stored;
• a knowledge base of types of computing resources storing semantic descriptors of the types, their attributes including relations among computing resources, taxonomy of their values, and actions that are configured to be performed based on the types and the capabilities of the computing resource providers of the computing resources;
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• user tools and backend hardware configured to dynamically update the catalog and the knowledge base to refresh pieces of information pertaining to the different computing resource providers, semantic descriptors of computing resources, types, their attributes, and the taxonomy of their values so as to inventory computing resources that are available on-demand over the Internet.

A computer-readable medium on which computer-executable instructions are stored to implement a method for organizing computing resources so as to discover them comprising:

• creating a catalog of different computing resource providers and their computing resources that are available on-demand over the Internet;
• creating a knowledge base of types of computing resources storing semantic descriptors of the types, their attributes including relations among computing resources, a taxonomy of their values, and actions that are configured to be performed based on the types and the capabilities of the computing resource providers of the computing resources;
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• dynamically updating the catalog and the knowledge base to refresh pieces of information pertaining to the different computing resource providers, semantic descriptors of computing resources, types, their attributes, and the taxonomy of their values so as to inventory computing resources that are available on-demand over the Internet.