Grid in a cloud
Dan Drollette
Friday, 09 October 2009 09:55 UTC
We often seem to think that cloud computing and grid computing are at odds, but Alfonso Olias of the European Space Agency showed that the two can be compatible.
His solution?
He and his colleagues built a grid inside the Amazon cloud. And he said that they only had to change one line of code to do it.
You can read his first-person account of how they did it here Could this approach could be used elsewhere?
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Anonymous
fantastic work.
Not to take any credit away from the work, I will however be very careful to classify it as “running grid inside cloud”. The framework that Alfonso and his collegues used could better be classified as “running java distributed computing inside cloud”.
The grid involves much more then that e.g. resource management, data management, scheduling policies, security policies, virtual organisation etc.
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