A Position Paper: Towards an Utility Computing and Communications Infrastructure

摘要

The future of the Internet may be a conjunction of Grid computing and service overlays hosted over Next Generation Internet (NGI) technologies, consisting of both wireline and wireless networks. The Grid and overlay networks can be seen as a key service layer for the future where the combination of computing and communication resources is dynamically allocated to virtual organizations on demand to enable optimal service and business deployment. To enable this synergy the efficient allocation of resources at minimum cost needs to be enabled. Today our resource description, resource matching and pricing in Grid/NGI needs to be extended/addressed and our viewpoint on these aspects are introduced in this paper. Initially this paper looks at some of the drivers and business models that could be envisaged with some background on developing grid networks and a brief review of some recent work on QoS description.