Cloud Computing, Management Complexity, Self-Organizing Fractal Theory, Non Equilibrium Thermodynamics, DIME networks, and all that Jazz May 5, 2012

The explosion of current cloud computing software offerings to create public, private and hybrid clouds raises a question. Is it resulting in higher resiliency, efficiency and scaling of service offerings or increasing the complexity by introducing more components in an already crowded datacenter deploying myriad management frameworks, tools and people. As the reliability of the total system depends both on the number of components and their configuration, the architecture of a system plays a role in defining the overall reliability. We discuss current cloud computing architecture, the resulting complexity and investigate possible solutions using the self-organizing fractals theory and non-equilibrium thermodynamics.

Turing Machines, Architectural Resilience of Cellular Organisms and DIME Network Architecture March 27, 2012

By introducing signaling and self- management in a Turing node and a signaling network as an overlay over the computing network, the current von-Neumann computing model is evolved to bring the architectural resiliency of cellular organisms to computing infrastructure. The new approach introduces the genetic transactions of replication, repair, recombination and reconfiguration to program self-resiliency in distributed computing systems executing a managed workflow. Perhaps, the injection of parallelism and network based composition of “Self” identity are the first steps in introducing the elements of homeostasis and self-management required for developing consciousness in the computing infrastructure.

Path to Self-managing Services: A Case for Deploying Managed Intelligent Services Using Dumb Infrastructure in a Stupid Network February 2, 2012

There have been many calls for a new computing model that combines computing and communication at an atomic computing element level which the Turing machine falls short. However, with high bandwidth communication and exploitation of the parallelism that is abundant in the new generation hardware, it is now possible to seriously look at new computing models. It seems the hardware advances have outpaced the software advances and perhaps it is about time to seriously take a second look at addressing the software short-fall

Turing Machines, Cognition, Parallel Loosely Coupled Processes, and DIME Networks: August 22, 2011

Distributed transactions requiring sensing, analysis and control are highly temporal in nature requiring dynamic coupling between various elements of the system. Each change in one element continually influences some other element’s direction of change and has to be accounted for in any computational model. The DIME network architecture provides a framework for implementing a non-von Neumann computing model allowing dynamic distributed transaction management. The DIME computing model brings architectural resiliency of cellular organisms to business process implementation and decouples the services management from the computing infrastructure management.

WETICE2011 – Paris, June 27 – 29, 2011: Convergence of Distributed Clouds, Grids and Their Management – Toward a Unified Theory of Computing with Telecom Grade Trust May 22, 2011

This track presents a new computing model and its implementation which resulted directly from the collaboration of the two workshops, Collaboration and Cloud Computing Workshop and the Emerging Technologies for Next-Generation grids sponsored under the Aegis of WETICE. In this track we discuss one of the key issues that still need to be addressed to improve the efficiencies and utilize the new generation of manycore servers that are transforming the information technology landscape. We believe that the evolution toward the transformation of the data centers from their current role of being just server, networking, and storage hosting centers to service switching centers with telecom grade trust is just around the corner.

Conference on “Convergence of Distributed Clouds, Grids and their Management” October 2, 2010

The conference on “Convergence of Distributed Clouds, Grids and their Management” sponsored under the Aegis of WETICE 2011 is devoted to addressing next generation computing models which support real-time resource reconfiguration of distributed business workflow execution based on latency constraints, changing workloads and business priorities. It is devoted to addressing the assurance of reliability, availability, performance, account management and security of distributed business process execution with appropriate visibility and control.
The target is to transform current labor and knowledge intensive IT management into self-configuring, self-monitoring, self-healing and self-optimizing distributed workflow implementations with resource management only limited by the speed of light.

Is the Network-centric Computing Paradigm for Muti-core, the Next Big Thing? July 22, 2010

While the evolution of current software architectures starting from the operating system have evolved from a server centric architecture where the CPU resource is scarce and is shared to perform multiple tasks, the multi-core Processors promote a contra architecture where each CPU has multiple threads and multiple CPUs can be networked to perform tasks in parallel. A network-centric computng paradigm is discussed as an alternative and will be the topic of research to be discussed in WETICE2011 to be held in Paris (June 27 – 29, 2011).

WETICE 2010: 2nd Workshop on Collaboration and Cloud Computing (CCC) April 27, 2010

Abstract: The combination of hardware assisted virtualization and the broadband Internet have taken the Information Technology (IT) hosted managed services to a next level of evolution, where the software applications have become independent of the hardware infrastructure and can be migrated at will.  This introduces two key issues that need to be addressed to fully leverage the [...]

2nd International Workshop on Collaboration and Cloud Computing (CCC) April 14, 2010

Theme: Computing Clouds with Telecom Grade “Trust” and Global Interoperability The combination of hardware assisted virtualization and the broadband Internet have taken the Information Technology (IT) hosted managed services to a next level of evolution, where the software applications have become independent of the hardware infrastructure and can be migrated at will.  This introduces two [...]

Does the New “Virtual Network” Spell Sunset to the Heterogeneous Physical Network Infrastructure as We Know in Today’s Data Centers? March 5, 2010

  “There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.”                      –Niccolo Machiavelli, “The Prince”  1469-1527 In spite of Machiavelli’s warnings, human endeavor strives to introduce a new order of things time [...]