Essays on Distributed Computing

Information technology as a phenomenon that plays a significant role in the life of society and human is relatively recent. Many experts connect it with the information revolution that started at the beginning of the 90s of the last century. The greatest influence on this process was by the development of local and global networks, industry of personal computers production, the Internet widespread, but the main driver of this process was the emergence of new services for the globalization of information exchange (creating the World Wide Web for standardization of search and delivery of multimedia documents). Today I consider that it ...

Research paper

Permanent control over the work of local network, which is a fundamental of any corporate network, is needed to maintain it in working condition. Control - a necessary first step that must be done in the management of the network. Given the importance of this function, it is often separated from other functions of management systems and implemented by special means. Such division of control functions and actually management is useful for small and medium-sized networks, for which the installation of the integrated management system is not economically sensible. The use of autonomous means of control helps the network administrator to ...

Abstract

The Cloud and Grid computation systems are different computation services or platforms that can help in different tasks. Cloud computing started in late 1990s. It is the form of TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) based on advanced development and integration of computer technologies such as huge memory, fast microprocessor, reliable system architecture, and high-speed network. Cloud computing are helpful in solving Internet-level computation problems, which are somewhat different from those of Grid computing. On the other hand, Grids started working in the mid 1990s to compute the large-scale problems with the help of network based resource-sharing commodity machines. Such ...

Introduction

The term “cluster computing” and “grid computing” are used interchangeably when describing networked computers designed to run distributed applications in order to share resources. However, they are used to in describing the varied set of distributed computing with ambiguous solutions. Both cluster and grid computing are used simultaneously to improve the performance of the application. The both help in sharing available resources such as printers, scanners and speakers (Dongarra et al., 2004). Nonetheless, grid and cluster computing have different approaches in problem solving since they differ in terms of their infrastructure and technologies. Grid and cluster computing can be ...

The near future tends to hint at the fact that information systems will have to be heterogeneous, open and distributed. The concept of distributed computing has become the norm in almost all organizations ranging from small companies to multinational conglomerates. Numerous individuals have been employed in this sector. The idea to move away from centralized computing resulted from the availability of reliable data communication networks. The desire by various organizations to make efficient and cost effective use of computing resources can also be attributed to the rise of distribution in information systems (Arregoces and Maurizio112). Distributed computing enables organizations ...

Introduction

Cloud Computing is the description given to a variety of different computing concepts involving a large number of computers interconnected via real-time communication networks like the internet. Cloud Computing is a terminology that lacks a universal technical or scientific definition. The term is a synonym for distributed computing through a network. It provides the capability to run a program on several interconnected computers simultaneously. Cloud Computing also refers to services that are network based. The networked based services are served by virtual hardware that is simulated by software running on a few of the machines. Cloud Computing depends on sharing of resources to realize economies of scale ...

Chapter 5

Super computing and grid computing have been used as a means if increasing computing power to achieve some specific desired results at a much faster rate, that is more accurate. The computers involved would cumulatively have the power close to a hundred times the power and functionality of a single home computer. A super computer is a single computer that has many processors that are inter connected via multiple high speed of board buses while a grid computer is a series of normal computers connected over a network that are used to perform specific calculations collectively for a single result (Gallaugher, 2011). Companies that are known to ...