Heterogeneity, High Performance Computing, Self-Organization and the Cloud

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This book is open access under a CC BY NC ND license. It addresses the most recent developments in cloud computing such as HPC in the Cloud, heterogeneous cloud, self-organising and self-management, and discusses the business implications of cloud computing adoption. Establishing the need for a new architecture for cloud computing, it discusses a novel cloud management and delivery architecture based on the principles of self-organisation and self-management. This focus shifts the deployment and optimisation effort from the consumer to the software stack running on the cloud infrastructure. Italso outlines validation challenges and introduces a novel generalised extensible simulation framework to illustrate the effectiveness, performance and scalability of self-organising and self-managing delivery models on hyperscale cloud infrastructures. It concludes with a number of potential use cases for self-organising, self-managing clouds and the impact on those businesses. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxi Addressing the Complexity of HPC in the Cloud: Emergence, Self-Organisation, Self-Management, and the Separation of Concerns (Theo Lynn)....Pages 1-30 Cloud Architectures and Management Approaches (Dapeng Dong, Huanhuan Xiong, Gabriel G. Castañe, John P. Morrison)....Pages 31-61 Self-Organising, Self-Managing Frameworks and Strategies (Huanhuan Xiong, Christos Filelis-Papadopoulos, Gabriel G. Castañe, Dapeng Dong, John P. Morrison)....Pages 63-88 Application Blueprints and Service Description (Ioan Dragan, Teodor-Florin Fortiș, Marian Neagul, Dana Petcu, Teodora Selea, Adrian Spataru)....Pages 89-117 Simulating Heterogeneous Clouds at Scale (Christos K. Filelis-Papadopoulos, Konstantinos M. Giannoutakis, George A. Gravvanis, Charalampos S. Kouzinopoulos, Antonios T. Makaratzis, Dimitrios Tzovaras)....Pages 119-150 Concluding Remarks (Theo Lynn, John P. Morrison)....Pages 151-156 Back Matter ....Pages 157-165