Programming clouds

Abstract

Cloud computing provides a platform for new software applications that run across a large collection of physically separate computers and free computation from the computer in front of a user. Distributed computing is not new, but the commodification of its hardware platform-along with ubiquitous networking; powerful mobile devices; and inexpensive, embeddable, networkable computers - heralds a revolution comparable to the PC. Software development for the cloud offers many new (and some old challenges) that are central to research in programming models, languages, and tools. The language and tools community should embrace this new world as fertile source of new challenges and opportunities to advance the state of the art. © 2010 Springer-Verlag.