[英语学习]GridMarket.pdf

Grid Market Dr Simon C.W. See Director Grid and High Performance Computing Technology Sun Microsystems Inc. Grid Economic or Grid Market •Motivation to make grid to be the mainstream computing model, Sun Proprietary/Confidential: Internal se Only “Utility” “Grid” Definitions UTILITY A computing infrastructure that someone else owns and manages. You access this infrastructure only when you need to, pay only what for you use, and have no long-term commitment. GRID A specific way systems are linked in a horizontal fashion. Sun is offering a grid infrastructure (or grid farm) for customers to access on a pay-as-you-go basis (versus a high-end, mission-critical data center.) Sun Proprietary/Confidential: Internal se Only Grid (Background) • Current Practice of Grid voluntary sharing of compute resources, establishing small-scale grid dedicated to a specific purpose FREE !!!????? • BUT this is simply not sustainable for global level generic grid WHO is paying for it? • Footnote position, 12 pts. Sun Proprietary/Confidential: Internal se Only Grid Market • Approach an efficient supporting platform and mechanism to encourage resource owners to issue their idle resources customers can get the satisfying resources. sing markets in Grid computing to commercialize their grid resources Sun Proprietary/Confidential: Internal se Only Definition • Traditional Market a social arrangement that allows buyers and sellers to discover information and carry out a voluntary exchange. • Grid Market a software platform with the business mechanisms to support trading between grid users.