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Talking about cloud
Some of the most excited HPC vendors these days are the grid computing companies that are rapidly extending their portfolios for the cloud computing market. Companies like Univa UD, Cluster Resources and Platform Computing, among others, are hoping that their expertise in utility computing can be parlayed to address a much wider market. Across the industry, the attraction of delivering infrastructure and software as services has become irresistible. Unlike grid computing, which never attained widespread use, cloud computing is almost certainly headed for fame and fortune.
Two general trends are pushing cloud deployment to the front of every CIO’s to-do list: the falling price of hardware and the increasing expense of managing that hardware as a single resource. Managing infrastructure at scale is where the grid middleware vendors come in, and at this stage it is these companies that see nothing but green field between high performance computing and the rest of the commercial enterprise market.
An interesting article talking about cloud computing, it’s always great to see what people are talking and thinking about in the industry, do check it out. Cloud might not be for everyone right now, but I wonder if we wont see it enter the enterprise, the smb for different reasons, for different technical or organizational reasons, whether it’s costs, business charge back/alignment or carbon footprint? We’ll have to see, an interesting read, do check it out.
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The referenced article says that the time is right for HPC vendors to muscle in on providing cloud solutions, but grid applications are those in which the applications are optimized for segregation into many calculation packets, probably in a scale-out environment. Where this occurs in a wide-area network (think the SETI screensavers), there are similarities to that of establishing a cloud infrastructure. The core of this and the most important word we should be focusing on is the infrastructure. The infrastructure needs to be in place, secure, robust, and dynamic – probably with a dash of virtualization. At IBM, we offer solutions and advanced technology that provide the DNA needed to deploy a dynamic infrastructure that helps a company to thrive. Dynamic Infrastructure is a part of the journey towards cloud computing.
What of the comparison between grid and cloud computing? Well, grid is not cloud and cloud is not grid. They may both be buzzwords, but they are different buzzwords. Can grid computing be transferred into a cloud? Different question, but probably, yes.
Perhaps the question CIOs should ask themselves is “is my infrastructure ready for cloud computing, if that is what helps the business?”.