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What Is Cloud Computing?: (And An Intro To Parallel/distributed Processing)

Cloud computing refers to storing and accessing data and programs over the Internet instead of a local computer's hard drive. It involves large data centers and virtualization to allow for web-scale computing problems. There are different models of cloud computing including utility computing where users pay to rent computing resources, platform as a service which provides APIs to build applications, and software as a service which allows users to access applications via a web browser.

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What Is Cloud Computing?: (And An Intro To Parallel/distributed Processing)

Cloud computing refers to storing and accessing data and programs over the Internet instead of a local computer's hard drive. It involves large data centers and virtualization to allow for web-scale computing problems. There are different models of cloud computing including utility computing where users pay to rent computing resources, platform as a service which provides APIs to build applications, and software as a service which allows users to access applications via a web browser.

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What is Cloud Computing?

(and an intro to parallel/distributed processing)

What is Cloud Computing?


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Web-scale problems Large data centers

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Different models of computing


Highly-interactive Web applications

1. Web-Scale Problems

Characteristics:

Definitely data-intensive May also be processing intensive

Examples:

Crawling, indexing, searching, mining the Web Post-genomics life sciences research Other scientific data (physics, astronomers, etc.) Sensor networks Web 2.0 applications

How much data?


Wayback Machine has 2 PB + 20 TB/month (2006) Google processes 20 PB a day (2008)

all words ever spoken by human beings ~ 5 EB


NOAA has ~1 PB climate data (2007) CERNs LHC will generate 15 PB a year (2008)
640K ought to be enough for anybody.

2. Large Data Centers


Web-scale problems? Throw more machines at it! Clear trend: centralization of computing resources in large data centers

Necessary ingredients: fiber, juice, and space What do Oregon, Iceland, and abandoned mines have in common?

Important Issues:

Redundancy Efficiency Utilization Management

Key Technology: Virtualization

App App App App OS

App OS Hypervisor Hardware

App OS

Operating System Hardware

Traditional Stack

Virtualized Stack

3. Different Computing Models


Why do it yourself if you can pay someone to do it for you?

Utility computing

Why buy machines when you can rent cycles? Examples: Amazons EC2, GoGrid, AppNexus

Platform as a Service (PaaS)


Give me nice API and take care of the implementation Example: Google App Engine

Software as a Service (SaaS)


Just run it for me! Example: Gmail

4. Web Applications

What is the nature of software applications?


From the desktop to the browser SaaS == Web-based applications Examples: Google Maps, Facebook

How do we deliver highly-interactive Web-based applications?

AJAX (asynchronous JavaScript and XML)

Cloud computing Example:

MapReduce: the back-end of cloud computing

Batch-oriented processing of large datasets

Ajax: the front-end of cloud computing

Highly-interactive Web-based applications Amazons EC2/S3 as an example of utility computing

Computing in the clouds

Amazon Web Services

Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)


Rent computing resources by the hour Basic unit of accounting = instance-hour Additional costs for bandwidth

Simple Storage Service (S3)

Persistent storage Charge by the GB/month Additional costs for bandwidth

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