Cloud Computing: Applications and Paradigms
The efforts to support large-scale distributed computing have encountered major difficulties over the years. The users of these systems discovered how difficult it was to locate the systems able to run an application. They soon realized that it is equally difficult to scale up and down to accommodate a dynamic load, to recover after a system failure, and to efficiently support checkpoint or restarting procedures.
At the same time, the providers of computing cycles and storage realized the difficulties in managing a large number of systems and providing guarantees for the quality of service. Any economic advantage offered by resource concentration was offset by the cost of management and the ...
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