Heterogeneity, High Performance Computing, Self-Organization and the Cloud

Theo Lynn, John P. Morrison, David Kenny, Theo Lynn, John P. Morrison, David Kenny

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9783319760377
• eBook ISBN: 9783319760384
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Computer Science

This book is open access under a CC BY NC ND license. It addresses the most recent developments in cloud computing such as HPC in the Cloud, heterogeneous cloud, self-organising and self-management, and discusses the business implications of cloud computing adoption. Establishing the need for a new architecture for cloud computing, it discusses a novel cloud management and delivery architecture based on the principles of self-organisation and self-management. This focus shifts the deployment and optimisation effort from the consumer to the software stack running on the cloud infrastructure. It also outlines validation challenges and introduces a novel generalised extensible simulation frameworkto illustrate the effectiveness, performance and scalability of self-organising and self-managing delivery models on hyperscale cloud infrastructures. It concludes with a number of potential use cases for self-organising, self-managing clouds and the impact on those businesses.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• 1. Addressing the Complexity of HPC in the Cloud: Emergence, Self-Organisation, Self-Management, and the Separation of Concerns
• 2. Cloud Architectures and Management Approaches
• 3. Self-Organising, Self-Managing Frameworks and Strategies
• 4. Application Blueprints and Service Description
• 5. Simulating Heterogeneous Clouds at Scale
• 6. Concluding Remarks
• Back Matter