Cloud Computing and Grid Computing 360-Degree Compared.PDF

Cloud Computing and Grid Computing 360-Degree Compared 1,2,3 4 1 5 Ian Foster, Yong Zhao, Ioan Raicu, Shiyong Lu foster@, yozha@, iraicu@, shiyong@ 1 Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA 2Computation Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA 3Math Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, USA 4Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, USA 5 Department of Computer Science, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA Abstract– Cloud Computing has become another buzzword after Web we find that those clusters are quite expensive to operate. We 2.0. However, there are dozens of different definitions for Cloud have low-cost virtualization. And, above all, we have multiple Computing and there seems to be no consensus on what a Cloud is. billions of dollars being spent by the likes of Amazon, Google, On the other hand, Cloud Computing is not a completely new concept; and Microsoft to create real commercial large-scale systems it has intricate connection to the relatively new but thirteen-year containing hundreds of thousands of computers. The prospect established Grid Computing paradigm, and other relevant technologies such as utility computing, cluster computing, and of needing only a credit card to get on-demand access to distributed systems in general. This paper strives to compa