Crowd-sourced cloud computing in a multiple resource provider environment

Logic encoded on one or more tangible media for execution and when executed operable to:

• receive, by one or more computing devices and for each of a plurality of resource providers, a registration request for participation of resources of each respective provider in a crowd-sourced computing cloud, each registration request comprising provider characteristics and a specification of the resources, each resource specification comprising resource specification parameters;
• register, by the one or more computing devices, the specified resources and provider characteristic of each of the plurality of providers;
• determine, by the one or more computing devices, at least one crowd-sourced cloud computing service to be offered based on the registered resources of at least one provider;
• and
• publish, by one or more computing devices, a searchable service catalog comprising an entry for each determined crowd-sourced cloud computing service to be offered, each service catalog entry comprising an identifier for at least one provider of the service described in the service catalog entry.

A system, comprising:

• a storage device;
• and
• a processor communicatively coupled to the storage device, wherein the processor executes application code instructions that are stored in the storage device to cause the system to:
• receive, for each of a plurality of resource providers, a registration request for participation of resources of each respective provider in a crowd-sourced computing cloud, each registration request comprising provider characteristics and a specification of the resources, each resource specification comprising resource specification parameters;
• register the specified resources and provider characteristic of each of the plurality of providers;
• determine at least one crowd-sourced cloud computing service to be offered based on the registered resources of at least one provider;
• and
• publish a searchable service catalog comprising an entry for each determined crowd-sourced cloud computing service to be offered, each service catalog entry comprising an identifier for at least one provider of the service described in the service catalog entry.