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

• Main Author: John P. Morrison (auth)
• Other Authors: David Kenny (auth), Theo Lynn (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Palgrave Macmillan 2018
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Digital Business & Enabling Technologies
• Subjects: resource management; blueprints; application; supply chain; PaaS; Saas; big data; HPCaaS; self-management; self-organisation
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This open access book 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 framework to 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.