Sky Computing
Sky computing is a new buzz word. Have you heard about this??? Yes Or No, but you would like to know more about this. Isn’t?
So, even I have been trying to find out more about SKY COMPUTING. (Sailing on the same boat :) ).
Why settle for a cloud when you can reach for the sky?
Definition of Sky Computing:
Note: This is something I understand about it :)
“Sky Computing is an emerging computing model where resources from multiple clouds providers are leveraged to create large scale distributed infrastructures.”
We all have heard about different computing model like:
a. SAAS (Software as a Service): In turn Cloud Computing.
b. IAAS (Infrastructure As A Service)
Before you get too comfortable with the idea of cloud computing get ready for ... sky computing! Yup, that’s right folks, computers in the sky.
Well actually sky computing, a term coined in the September/October 2009 issue of IEEE Internet Computing, is an architectural concept that basically just means federated cloud computing, or multiple cloud computing architectures working together to form one giant cloud or ... sky computer.
Developing a way to join several cloud infrastructures together into one massive cloud would be especially useful to academic researchers who utilize open large-scale compute resources, like the Open Science Grid or the European Grid Infrastructure, together with open source cloud computing platforms such as Nimbus, in order to create their own private clouds with rather than say Amazon’s EC2.
But Nimbus does not allow users to build clouds using more than one set of servers at a time, hence the need for a cloud platform that could enable researchers to take advantage of as much free grid resources as they can for a single job run or project.
Quick Review Or Conclusion:
The Sky Computing model allows the creation of large scale infrastructure using resources from multiple cloud providers. These infrastructures are able to run embarrassingly parallel computation with high performance.
So, if you haven’t got chance to read about Cloud Computing, then please wait till my next article
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