High energy & nuclear physics

A business/market vision

• marketing existing under-used resources
• a small set of computing power providers
• a global market
• an integrated « hyper-market »: computing, entertainment, learning?
• for the best of a few big (too-big-to-fail) companies

"A Cloud is a type of parallel and distributed system consisting of a collection of interconnected and virtualized computers that are dynamically provisioned and presented as one or more unified computing resources based on service-level agreements established through negotiation between the service provider and consumers” (Buyya et al.)

• "A Cloud is a type of parallel and distributed system consisting of a collection of interconnected and virtualized computers that are dynamically provisioned and presented as one or more unified computing resources based on service-level agreements established through negotiation between the service provider and consumers” (Buyya et al.)

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