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Chapter 4

Examining Cloud Computing from the Perspective of Grid

and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work

Jinlei Jiang and Guangwen Yang

AbstractCloud computing, which refers to services provisioning and consumption over the Internet, is the latest paradigm promising to deliver computing as a utility. Though it is still in its infancy and facing many challenges, cloud computing has drawn and is drawing more interest from both academia and industry. Taking grid computing as the baseline and using the findings in computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) research, this chapter tries to answer such questions as why cloud computing is so attractive and how to make the vision of cloud computing really come true.

4.1  Introduction

Delivering computing as a utility was envisioned a way back by computing pioneer John McCarthy in 1961 as [17] – “If computers of the kind I have advocated become the computers of the future, then computing may someday be organized as a public utility just as the telephone system is a public utility… The computer utility could become the basis of a new and important industry.”, and by Leonard Kleinrock in 1969 [10] – “As of now, computer networks are still in their infancy, but as they grow up and become sophisticated, we will probably see the spread of ‘computer utilities’ which, like present electric and telephone utilities, will service individual homes and offices across the country.” Along the journey toward this dream, many computing paradigms have been proposed, including cluster computing, peer-to-peer (P2P) computing, services computing, and grid computing. Cloud computing, which refers to service (hardware such as CPU and storage, platform, and application) provisioning and consumption over the Internet in an on-demand approach, is the latest one joining this family. Though it is just an emerging

J. Jiang (*)

Department of Computer Science & Technology, Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science & Technology, Tsinghua University, 100084, Beijing, P.R. China

e-mail: jjlei@tsinghua.edu.cn

N. Antonopoulos and L. Gillam (eds.), Cloud Computing: Principles,

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Systems and Applications, Computer Communications and Networks,

DOI 10.1007/978-1-84996-241-4_4, © Springer-Verlag London Limited 2010

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