High energy & nuclear physics

Butter's law (optical fiber)

• The amount of data coming out of an optical fiber is doubling every 9 months

In 3 years (36 months), networkx16, storagex8, processingx4

In 9 years (108 months), networkx4096, storagex512, processingx64

A Quick Overview of Distributed System Models

• A Quick Overview of Distributed System Models

• An Introduction to Grid Computing

• An Introduction to Cloud Computing

Distributed system

• Distributed system

• Parallel system

• Cluster computing

• Meta-computing

• Grid computing

• Peer to peer computing

• Global computing

• Internet computing

• Network computing

• Cloud computing

N autonomous computers (sites): n administrators, n data/control flows

• N autonomous computers (sites): n administrators, n data/control flows

• an interconnection network

• User view: one single (virtual) system

• «A distributed system is a collection of independent computers that appear to the users of the system as a single computer » Distributed Operating Systems, A. Tanenbaum, Prentice Hall, 1994

• « Traditional » programmer view: client-server