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The Grid - How distributed computing will change the media world | New Media Days 2008
How distributed computing will change the media world
NEW MEDIA DAYS 2008
The Grid
Radarstation | Enterprise Development Group
October 2008
The Grid - How distributed computing will change the media world | New Media Days 2008
Oleg Podsechin
NEW MEDIA DAYS 2008
Today’s Grid opportunities
Radarstation | Enterprise Development Group
October 2008
The Grid - How distributed computing will change the media world | New Media Days 2008
Virtualization of resources
Virtualize the entire machine using Xen, VirtualBox, VMWare
Enabling the Commercial Grid
The Grid - How distributed computing will change the media world | New Media Days 2008
Open Source Components and Standard APIs
No hidden fees such as OS license costs
Enabling the Commercial Grid
The Grid - How distributed computing will change the media world | New Media Days 2008
Billing to enable utility computing
No set-up costs, credit cards accepted
Enabling the Commercial Grid
The Grid - How distributed computing will change the media world | New Media Days 2008
Service Level Agreements
Guaranteed uptime and compensation for downtime
Enabling the Commercial Grid
The Grid - How distributed computing will change the media world | New Media Days 2008
Grids power what has become known as Cloud Computing
Enabling the Commercial Grid
The Grid - How distributed computing will change the media world | New Media Days 2008
Infrastructure consists of Middleware and Resources
Until recently all Applications ran on top of bespoke Infrastructure
Now Infrastructure provision has become a service (IaaS)
Infrastructure as a Service
Infrastructure
The Grid - How distributed computing will change the media world | New Media Days 2008
Infrastructure Providers
Amazon is now a major provider, together with Joyent, GoGrid and others
Source: Amazon.com Inc
The Grid - How distributed computing will change the media world | New Media Days 2008
Increased efficiency in resource utilization
Pay for what you use - low initial investment means organic growth
Great for dealing with surges in demand e.g. viral campaigns
Still more expensive than colocation hosting
High degree of lock-in to a provider despite open protocols
Difficult to compare providers like for like; reliability and SLA issues
Data protection issues
Pros and Cons
The Grid - How distributed computing will change the media world | New Media Days 2008
Infrastructure Provider as an ISP
The Grid - How distributed computing will change the media world | New Media Days 2008
FriendFeed – social network aggregator
Dropbox – secure file backup and syncing
Animoto – music videos from photos
Smugmug – high quality, secure photo sharing
eyeOS – browser based web OS
Gnip – update notification
3Tera – infrastructure components
Abiquo – grid and cloud computing middleware
Applications and Enablers: Examples
The Grid - How distributed computing will change the media world | New Media Days 2008
Applications and Enablers: Screenshots
eyeOS 3Tera AppLogic
The Grid - How distributed computing will change the media world | New Media Days 2008
Infrastructure Providers allow for rapid development and deployment of Applications that require Processing, Bandwidth and Storage resources that can scale
These Apps have the opportunity to surpass incumbent players
Processing@home projects, Sun Grid
BandwidthContent Delivery Networks
Storage Backup and file sharing services
What about other types of resources in the grid? Mobile terminals, sensors, new input devices …
Potential for Disruption