From invisible grids to smart cloud computing

Abstract

In recent years the concepts and implementations of modern distributed computing infrastructures have been developing rapidly. The cloud computing paradigm emerged shortly after the introduction of the "invisible" grid concepts. In both cases however providing support for a variety of autonomic properties is of primary importance for constructing those large-scale complex systems of high quality. This paper gives an overview of our reference smart cloud computing architecture which is proposed as a solution to these problems. Some of the available directions for future work are also discussed. © 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.