Comparison of Cloud and Grid Computing

2014

The present competitive world is characterized by individuals and businesses constantly trying to adapt themselves to progressive technological innovations for competitive advantage to stay ahead of the race. Cloud Computing is one such innovation which has made considerable impact in the market. It is the practice of delivering services over the Internet. These services can be broadly categorized into Infrastructure-as-aService (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). For instance, more and more organizations and individuals are migrating data to the servers on the cloud, thus reaping the benefits of IaaS which eliminates the need of own data centres and lowers maintenance costs. Cloud Computing is the amalgamation of existing technologies like Grid Computing, Utility Computing and several other models. Grid Computing is a form of distributed and parallel computing. In simple terms, it is a set of distributed resources working together to achieve a mut...

2016

Abstract-In today’s network world, the most advanced and recent technology is the Cloud computing. Clouds can be thought as the new generation of Grid Computing. Clouds generally consist of data centres that are owned by the same organization. The homogeneity within each data centre in the infrastructure is the main feature for the cloud computing compared to grid computing. This paper not only defines cloud but provides the different components of clouds. It also provides the different services provided by Clouds and how Cloud’s cost definition differs from that of Grid computing. It further defines the Grid computing with its main characteristics. Main focus of this paper is to compare the cloud computing with the earlier generation technology like Grid computing by high lighting the main differences as well the similarities between them. At the end, this paper also focuses the advantages of using Cloud Computing and its future prospects.

Technologies like cloud, grid and cluster computing have all aimed at allowing access to large amounts of computing power in a fully virtualized manner, by aggregating resources as well as offering a single system view. This paper includes the introduction, characteristics, advantages, disadvantages, benefits and drawbacks of Virtualization, Cloud, Grid and Cluster Computing. Further this paper contains comparison between cloud, cluster and grid computing, comparison between grid and cluster computing and at last covering comparison between cloud computing and virtualization as well as comparison between grid and cloud computing. The aim of this paper is to show importance and comparison between virtualization, cloud, grid and cluster computing.

2015

Cloud computing is really changing the way of computation. Many computer resources such as hardware and software are collected into the resource pool which can be assessed by the users via the internet through web browsers or light weight desktops or mobile devices. It is not a very new concept; it is related to grid computing paradigm, and utility computing as well as cluster computing. All these computing viz. Grid, cluster and utility computing, have actually contributed in the development of cloud computing. In this paper, we are going to compare all the technologies which leads to the emergence of Cloud computing.

2010

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Cloud Computing represents a novel and promising approach for implementing scalable ICT systems for individual-, communities-, and business-use relying on the latest achievements of diverse research areas, such as Grid computing, Service oriented computing, business processes, and virtualization. From the technological point of view Grid computing is considered as the most related predecessor technology of Cloud computing. Although, Cloud and Grid computing differ in many aspects, as for example, in the general idea of the provision of computational resource, which is in Clouds commercial based and in Grids community based, there are many similarities. In this paper we investigate the similarities and differences between Clouds and Grids by evaluating two successful projects, namely for the provision of native hight performance copmputing applications as Grid workflows and for the self-management of Cloud infrastructures.

2010

The fields of Grid, Utility and Cloud Computing have a set of common objectives in harnessing shared resources to optimally meet a great variety of demands cost-effectively and in a timely manner Since Grid Computing started its technological journey about a decade earlier than Cloud Computing, the Cloud can benefit from the technologies and experience of the Grid in building an infrastructure for distributed computing. Our comparison of Grid and Cloud starts with their basic characteristics and interaction models with clients, resource consumers and providers. Then the similarities and differences in architectural layers and key usage patterns are examined. This is followed by an in depth look at the technologies and best practices that have applicability from Grid to Cloud computing, including scheduling, service orientation, security, data management, monitoring, interoperability, simulation and autonomic support. Finally, we offer insights on how these techniques will help solve the current challenges faced by Cloud computing.

Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications

Cloud computing is a new kind of computing model and technology introduced by industry leaders in recent years. Nowadays, it is the center of attention because of various excellent promises. However, it brings some challenges and arguments among computing leaders about the future of computing models and infrastructure. For example, whether it is going to be in place of other technologies in computing like grid or not, is an interesting question. In this chapter, we address this issue by considering the original grid architecture. We show how cloud can be put in the grid architecture to complement it. As a result, we face some shadow challenges to be addressed.

Grid computing enlarge with computing platform which is collection of heterogeneous computing resources connected by a network across dynamic and geographically dispersed organization to form a distributed high performance computing infrastructure. Grid computing solves the complex computing problems amongst multiple machines. Grid computing solves the large scale computational demands in a high performance computing envir onment . In this paper we study about Grid Computing ,its needs ,services, and security issues in Grid Computing and solutions for security issues in Grid Computing.

2013

Through the 1990s to 2012 the internet changed the world of computing drastically. It started its journey with parallel computing after it advanced to distributed computing and further to grid computing. And in present scenario it creates a new world which is pronounced as a Cloud Computing [1]. These all three terms have different meanings. Cloud computing is based on backward computing schemes like cluster computing, distributed computing, grid computing and utility computing. The basic concept of cloud computing is virtualization. It provides virtual hardware and software resources to various requesting programs. This paper gives a detailed description about cluster computing, grid computing and cloud computing and gives an insight of some implementations of the same. We try to list the inspirations for the advent of all these technologies. We also account for some present scenario faults of grid computing and also discuss new cloud computing projects which are being managed by the Government of India for learning. The paper also reviews the existing work and covers (analytically), to some extent, some innovative ideas that can be implemented.