Emerging Trends of Cloud Computing

Abstract

Cloud computing is Internet based system development in which large number of computing resources are provided as a service over the internet to users. The concept of cloud computing incorporates infrastructure of web, software as a service (SaaS), Web 2.0 and other emerging technologies, and has attracted more and more attention from industry and research community. We describe about the construction of a cloud computing platform. Specifically, we design a GFS(Global Foundation Service) compatible file system with variable chunk size to facilitate massive data processing, and introduce some implementation enhancement on Map Reduce to improve the system throughput. We also discuss some practical issues for system implementation.