Rationale for Cloud computing
- Outsourcing IT infrastructure
- Minimize costs
- Large cloud/utility computing provides can have relativel very small ownership and operation costs due to the huge scale of deployment and automation
- Small business have access to large scale resources
Example – Amazon Web Services
= Simple Storage Service (s3) – storage for the internet; simple web service interface
Example – smugmug.com
= Profitable, debt-free company because it does not have any hardware resources; it only uses Amazon hardware (for free, in the cloud)
Examples from Microsoft:
Live Mesh
- A PC in the cloud
- Can synchronize PC in the cloud with your laptop, your mobile devices such as phones or music players etc
- Can upload documents for other people to work on
- Other people can download and use those documents that you choose to share
The future = software plus services for science
Expect scientific research environments to follow similar trends to the commercial sector
Example - Trident Scientific Workflow Workbench
Toward a Smart Cyberinfrastructure
Collective intelligence
Example – last fm.
A world where all data is linked…
…and stored/processed/analyzed in the cloud
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