This document discusses various computing paradigms, including high performance computing, cluster computing, distributed computing, grid computing, cloud computing, biocomputing, mobile computing, quantum computing, and optical computing. It provides overview definitions and examples of each paradigm, focusing on how they utilize different types of computer systems and networks to process and solve problems.
Introduction to Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is a transformative technology that allows businesses and individuals to access computing resources over the internet. Instead of owning and maintaining physical hardware and software, users can leverage cloud services provided by companies like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and others. This shift has revolutionized how we think about IT infrastructure, software development, data storage, and more.
Key Concepts of Cloud Computing
On-Demand Self-Service:
Users can provision computing resources as needed without human intervention from the service provider. This includes servers, storage, and applications.
Broad Network Access:
Cloud services are available over the network and accessed through standard mechanisms, enabling use from a variety of devices like laptops, smartphones, and tablets.
Resource Pooling:
Providers use a multi-tenant model to serve multiple customers with dynamically assigned resources. This model allows for economies of scale and efficient resource utilization.
Rapid Elasticity:
Resources can be elastically provisioned and released, sometimes automatically, to scale rapidly outward and inward commensurate with demand.
Measured Service:
Cloud systems automatically control and optimize resource use by leveraging a metering capability, allowing for pay-as-you-go pricing models.
Types of Cloud Computing Services
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS):
Provides virtualized computing resources over the internet. Examples include AWS EC2, Google Compute Engine, and Azure Virtual Machines.
Platform as a Service (PaaS):
Offers hardware and software tools over the internet, typically used for application development. Examples include Google App Engine, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and Azure App Services.
Software as a Service (SaaS):
Delivers software applications over the internet, on a subscription basis. Examples include Google Workspace, Microsoft Office 365, and Salesforce.
Deployment Models
Public Cloud:
Services are delivered over the public internet and shared across multiple organizations. It offers cost savings but might pose concerns regarding data security and privacy.
Private Cloud:
Dedicated to a single organization, offering enhanced security and control over data and infrastructure. It's more expensive than public cloud but can be tailored to specific business needs.
Hybrid Cloud:
Combines public and private clouds, allowing data and applications to be shared between them. This model offers greater flexibility and optimization of existing infrastructure, security, and compliance.
Community Cloud:
Shared between organizations with common concerns (e.g., security, compliance, jurisdiction). It can be managed internally or by a third-party.
Advantages of Cloud Computing
Cost Efficiency: Reduces the need for significant capital expenditure on hardware and software.
Scalability and Flexibility: Easily scales up or down based on
Introduction to Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is a transformative technology that allows businesses and individuals to access computing resources over the internet. Instead of owning and maintaining physical hardware and software, users can leverage cloud services provided by companies like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and others. This shift has revolutionized how we think about IT infrastructure, software development, data storage, and more.
Key Concepts of Cloud Computing
On-Demand Self-Service:
Users can provision computing resources as needed without human intervention from the service provider. This includes servers, storage, and applications.
Broad Network Access:
Cloud services are available over the network and accessed through standard mechanisms, enabling use from a variety of devices like laptops, smartphones, and tablets.
Resource Pooling:
Providers use a multi-tenant model to serve multiple customers with dynamically assigned resources. This model allows for economies of scale and efficient resource utilization.
Rapid Elasticity:
Resources can be elastically provisioned and released, sometimes automatically, to scale rapidly outward and inward commensurate with demand.
Measured Service:
Cloud systems automatically control and optimize resource use by leveraging a metering capability, allowing for pay-as-you-go pricing models.
Types of Cloud Computing Services
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS):
Provides virtualized computing resources over the internet. Examples include AWS EC2, Google Compute Engine, and Azure Virtual Machines.
Platform as a Service (PaaS):
Offers hardware and software tools over the internet, typically used for application development. Examples include Google App Engine, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and Azure App Services.
Software as a Service (SaaS):
Delivers software applications over the internet, on a subscription basis. Examples include Google Workspace, Microsoft Office 365, and Salesforce.
Deployment Models
Public Cloud:
Services are delivered over the public internet and shared across multiple organizations. It offers cost savings but might pose concerns regarding data security and privacy.
Private Cloud:
Dedicated to a single organization, offering enhanced security and control over data and infrastructure. It's more expensive than public cloud but can be tailored to specific business needs.
Hybrid Cloud:
Combines public and private clouds, allowing data and applications to be shared between them. This model offers greater flexibility and optimization of existing infrastructure, security, and compliance.
Community Cloud:
Shared between organizations with common concerns (e.g., security, compliance, jurisdiction). It can be managed internally or by a third-party.
Advantages of Cloud Computing
Cost Efficiency: Reduces the need for significant capital expenditure on hardware and software.
Scalability and Flexibility: Easily scales up or down based on
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This presentation was given by Dr. Konstantinos Giannoutakis (CERTH) at the CloudLightning Conference on 11th April 2017.
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Save time - wall clock time
Solve larger problems
Provide concurrency (do multiple things at the same time)
Simulation of Heterogeneous Cloud InfrastructuresCloudLightning
During the last years, except from the traditional CPU based hardware servers, hardware accelerators are widely used in various HPC application areas. More specifically, Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), Many Integrated Cores (MICs) and Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have shown a great potential in HPC and have been widely mobilised in supercomputing and in HPC-Clouds. This presentation focuses on the development of a cloud simulation framework that supports hardware accelerators. The design and implementation of the framework are also discussed.
This presentation was given by Dr. Konstantinos Giannoutakis (CERTH) at the CloudLightning Conference on 11th April 2017.
This Presentation was prepared by Abdussamad Muntahi for the Seminar on High Performance Computing on 11/7/13 (Thursday) Organized by BRAC University Computer Club (BUCC) in collaboration with BRAC University Electronics and Electrical Club (BUEEC).
The primary reasons for using parallel computing:
Save time - wall clock time
Solve larger problems
Provide concurrency (do multiple things at the same time)
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2. Introduction
What is computing?
• The process of utilizing computer technology to complete a task.
• Computing may involve computer hardware and/or software, but
must involve some form of a computer system.
What is paradigms?
• A style or a way of doing something.
• A set of practices to be followed to accomplish a task.
Computing Paradigms
• In the domain of computing, there are many different standard
practices being followed based on inventions and technological
advancements.
3. • The various computing paradigms:
~ High performance computing,
~ Cluster computing,
~ Grid computing,
~ Cloud computing,
~ Bio-computing,
~ Mobile computing,
~ Quantum computing,
~ Optical computing,
~ Nanocomputing.
4. High Performance Computing
• In high-performance computing systems, a pool of processors
are connected with other resources like memory, storage, and
input and output devices, and the deployed software is enabled
to run in the entire system of connected components.
• The processor machines can be of homogeneous or
heterogeneous type.
• The legacy meaning of high-performance computing (HPC) is
the supercomputers; however, it is not true in present-day
computing scenarios.
5. • Thus, examples of HPC include a small cluster of desktop
computers or personal computers (PCs) to the fastest
supercomputers.
• HPC systems are normally found in those applications where it
is required to use or solve scientific problems.
• Most of the time, the challenge in working with these kinds of
problems is to perform suitable simulation study, and this can
be accomplished by HPC without any difficulty.
• Scientific examples such as protein folding in molecular biology
and studies on developing models and applications based on
nuclear fusion are worth noting as potential applications
for HPC.
6. Parallel Computing
• Parallel computing is also one of the facets of HPC.
• Here, a set of processors work cooperatively to solve a
computational problem.
• These processor machines or CPUs are mostly of homogeneous
type. Therefore, this definition is the same as that of HPC.
• In serial or sequential computers, the following apply:
• It runs on a single computer/processor machine having a single
CPU.
• A problem is broken down into a discrete series of instructions.
• Instructions are executed one after another.
7. • In parallel computing, since there is simultaneous use of
multiple processor machines, the following apply:
• It is run using multiple processors (multiple CPUs).
• A problem is broken down into discrete parts that can be solved
concurrently.
• Each part is further broken down into a series of instructions.
• Instructions from each part are executed simultaneously on
different processors.
• An overall control/coordination mechanism is employed.
8. Distributed Computing
• Distributed computing is also a computing system that consists
of multiple computers or processor machines connected
through a network, which can be homogeneous or
heterogeneous, but run as a single system.
• The connectivity can be such that the CPUs in a distributed
system can be physically close together and connected by a
local network, or they can be geographically distant and
connected by a wide area network.
• The heterogeneity in a distributed system supports any number
of possible configurations in the processor machines, such as
mainframes, PCs, workstations, and minicomputers.
9. • The goal of distributed computing is to make such a network
work as a single computer.
• Distributed computing systems are advantageous over
centralized systems, because there is a support for the following
characteristic features:
1. Scalability: It is the ability of the system to be easily expanded by
adding more machines as needed, and vice versa, without
affecting the existing setup.
2. Redundancy or replication: Here, several machines can provide
the same services, so that even if one is unavailable (or failed),
work does not stop because other similar computing supports will
be available.
10. Cluster Computing
• A cluster computing system consists of a set of the same or
similar type of processor machines connected using a dedicated
network infrastructure.
• All processor machines share resources such as a common
home directory and have a software such as a message passing
interface (MPI) implementation installed to allow programs to
be run across all nodes simultaneously.
• This is also a kind of HPC category.
• The individual computers in a cluster can be referred to as
nodes.
11. • The reason to realize a cluster as HPC is due to the fact that the
individual nodes can work together to solve a problem larger
than any computer can easily solve.
• And, the nodes need to communicate with one another in
order to work cooperatively and meaningfully together to solve
the problem in hand.
• If we have processor machines of heterogeneous types in a
cluster, this kind of clusters become a subtype and still mostly
are in the experimental or research stage.
12. Grid Computing
• The computing resources in most of the organizations are
underutilized but are necessary for certain operations.
• The idea of grid computing is to make use of such nonutilized
computing power by the needy organizations, and thereby the
return on investment (ROI) on computing investments can be
increased.
• Thus, grid computing is a network of computing or processor
machines managed with a kind of software such as middleware,
in order to access and use the resources remotely.
• The managing activity of grid resources through the middleware
is called grid services.
13. • Grid services provide access control, security, access to data
including digital libraries and databases, and access to large-
scale interactive and long-term storage facilities.
• Grid computing is more popular due to the following reasons:
~ Its ability to make use of unused computing power, and thus, it is
a cost-effective solution (reducing investments, only recurring
costs)
~ As a way to solve problems in line with any HPC-based
application
~ Enables heterogeneous resources of computers to work
cooperatively and collaboratively to solve a scientific problem
• Researchers associate the term grid to the way electricity is
distributed in municipal areas for the common man.
14.
15. Cloud Computing
• The computing trend moved toward cloud from the concept of
grid computing, particularly when large computing resources
are required to solve a single problem, using the ideas of
computing power as a utility and other allied concepts.
• However, the potential difference between grid and cloud is that
grid computing supports leveraging several computers in
parallel to solve a particular application, while cloud computing
supports leveraging multiple resources, including computing
resources, to deliver a unified service to the end user.
16. • In cloud computing, the IT and business resources, such as
servers, storage, network, applications, and processes, can be
dynamically provisioned to the user needs and workload.
• In addition, while a cloud can provision and support a grid, a
cloud can also support non-grid environments, such as a three-
tier web architecture running on traditional or Web 2.0
applications.
17. Biocomputing
• Biocomputing systems use the concepts of biologically derived
or simulated molecules (or models) that perform computational
processes in order to solve a problem.
• The biologically derived models aid in structuring the computer
programs that become part of the application.
• Biocomputing provides the theoretical background and
practical tools for scientists to explore proteins and DNA.
• DNA and proteins are nature’s building blocks, but these
building blocks are not exactly used as bricks;
18. • The function of the final molecule rather strongly depends on
the order of these blocks.
• Thus, the biocomputing scientist works on inventing the order
suitable for various applications mimicking biology.
• Biocomputing shall, therefore, lead to a better understanding of
life and the molecular causes of certain diseases.
19. Mobile Computing
• In mobile computing, the processing (or computing) elements
are small (i.e., handheld devices) and the communication
between various resources is taking place using wireless media.
• Mobile communication for voice applications (e.g., cellular
phone) is widely established throughout the world and
witnesses a very rapid growth in all its dimensions including the
increase in the number of subscribers of various cellular
networks.
• An extension of this technology is the ability to send and receive
data across various cellular networks using small devices such as
smartphones.
20. • There can be numerous applications based on this technology;
for example, video call or conferencing is one of the important
applications that people prefer to use in place of existing voice
(only) communications on mobile phones.
• Mobile computing–based applications are becoming very
important and rapidly evolving with various technological
advancements as it allows users to transmit data from remote
locations to other remote or fixed locations.
21. Quantum Computing
• Manufacturers of computing systems say that there is a limit for
cramming more and more transistors into smaller and smaller
spaces of integrated circuits (ICs) and thereby doubling the
processing power about every 18 months.
• This problem will have to be overcome by a new quantum
computing–based solution, wherein the dependence is on quantum
information, the rules that govern the subatomic world.
• Quantum computers are millions of times faster than even our most
powerful supercomputers today.
• Since quantum computing works differently on the most
fundamental level than the current technology, and although there
are working prototypes, these systems have not so far proved to be
alternatives to today’s silicon-based machines.
22. Optical Computing
• Optical computing system uses the photons in visible light or
infrared beams, rather than electric current, to perform digital
computations.
• An electric current flows at only about 10% of the speed of light.
• This limits the rate at which data can be exchanged over long
distances and is one of the factors that led to the evolution of
optical fiber.
• By applying some of the advantages of visible and/or IR networks
at the device and component scale, a computer can be developed
that can perform operations 10 or more times faster than a
conventional electronic computer.
23. Nanocomputing
• Nanocomputing refers to computing systems that are constructed
from nanoscale components.
• The silicon transistors in traditional computers may be replaced by
transistors based on carbon nanotubes.
• The successful realization of nanocomputers relates to the scale and
integration of these nanotubes or components.
• The issues of scale relate to the dimensions of the components; they
are, at most, a few nanometers in at least two dimensions.
• The issues of integration of the components are twofold: first, the
manufacture of complex arbitrary patterns may be economically
infeasible, and second, nanocomputers may include massive
quantities of devices.