Mastering Cloud Computing
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Mastering Cloud Computing

Foundations and Applications Programming

1st Edition - April 5, 2013
  • Authors: Rajkumar Buyya, Christian Vecchiola, S.Thamarai Selvi
  • eBook ISBN: 9780124095397
  • Paperback ISBN: 9780124114548

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Mastering Cloud Computing is designed for undergraduate students learning to develop cloud computing applications. Tomorrow's applications won’t live on a single computer but will be deployed from and reside on a virtual server, accessible anywhere, any time. Tomorrow's application developers need to understand the requirements of building apps for these virtual systems, including concurrent programming, high-performance computing, and data-intensive systems. The book introduces the principles of distributed and parallel computing underlying cloud architectures and specifically focuses on virtualization, thread programming, task programming, and map-reduce programming. There are examples demonstrating all of these and more, with exercises and labs throughout.

Key Features

  • Explains how to make design choices and tradeoffs to consider when building applications to run in a virtual cloud environment
  • Real-world case studies include scientific, business, and energy-efficiency considerations

Readership

Undergraduate students in cloud computing courses, as well as professionals who want to learn about this technology

Table of Contents

  • Acknowledgments

    Preface

    The book at a glance

    Benefits and readership

    Directions for adoption: theory, labs, and projects

    Supplemental materials

    Part 1: Foundations

    Chapter 1. Introduction

    1.1 Cloud computing at a glance

    1.2 Historical developments

    1.3 Building cloud computing environments

    Summary

    Review questions

    Chapter 2. Principles of Parallel and Distributed Computing

    2.1 Eras of computing

    2.2 Parallel vs. distributed computing

    2.3 Elements of parallel computing

    2.4 Elements of distributed computing

    2.5 Technologies for distributed computing

    Summary

    Review questions

    Chapter 3. Virtualization

    3.1 Introduction

    3.2 Characteristics of virtualized environments

    3.3 Taxonomy of virtualization techniques

    3.4 Virtualization and cloud computing

    3.5 Pros and cons of virtualization

    3.6 Technology examples

    Summary

    Review questions

    Chapter 4. Cloud Computing Architecture

    4.1 Introduction

    4.2 The cloud reference model

    4.3 Types of clouds

    4.4 Economics of the cloud

    4.5 Open challenges

    Summary

    Review questions

    Part 2: Cloud Application Programming and the Aneka Platform

    Chapter 5. Aneka: Cloud Application Platform

    5.1 Framework overview

    5.2 Anatomy of the Aneka container

    5.3 Building Aneka clouds

    5.4 Cloud programming and management

    Summary

    Review questions

    Chapter 6. Concurrent Computing: Thread Programming

    6.1 Introducing parallelism for single-machine computation

    6.2 Programming applications with threads

    6.3 Multithreading with Aneka

    6.4 Programming applications with Aneka threads

    Summary

    Review questions

    Chapter 7. High-Throughput Computing: Task Programming

    7.1 Task computing

    7.2 Task-based application models

    7.3 Aneka task-based programming

    Summary

    Review questions

    Chapter 8. Data-Intensive Computing: MapReduce Programming

    8.1 What is data-intensive computing?

    8.2 Technologies for data-intensive computing

    8.3 Aneka MapReduce programming

    Summary

    Review questions

    Part 3: Industrial Platforms and New Developments

    Chapter 9. Cloud Platforms in Industry

    9.1 Amazon web services

    9.2 Google AppEngine

    9.3 Microsoft Azure

    Summary

    Review questions

    Chapter 10. Cloud Applications

    10.1 Scientific applications

    10.2 Business and consumer applications

    Summary

    Review questions

    Chapter 11. Advanced Topics in Cloud Computing

    11.1 Energy efficiency in clouds

    11.2 Market-based management of clouds

    11.3 Federated clouds/InterCloud

    11.4 Third-party cloud services

    Summary

    Review questions

    References

    Index

Product details

  • No. of pages: 468
  • Language: English
  • Copyright: © Morgan Kaufmann 2013
  • Published: April 5, 2013
  • Imprint: Morgan Kaufmann
  • eBook ISBN: 9780124095397
  • Paperback ISBN: 9780124114548

About the Authors

Rajkumar Buyya

Rajkumar Buyya
Dr. Rajkumar Buyya is Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor and Director of the Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is also serving as the founding CEO of Manjrasoft, a spin-off company of the University, commercializing its innovations in Cloud Computing. He has authored over 650 publications and seven textbooks including Mastering Cloud Computing from McGraw Hill, China Machine Press, and Morgan Kaufmann for Indian, Chinese and international markets respectively. Dr. Buyya is one of the most highly-cited authors in Computer Sience and Software Engineering worldwide. “A Scientometric Analysis of Cloud Computing Literature” by German scientists ranked Dr. Buyya as the World's Top-Cited Author and the World's Most-Productive Author in Cloud Computing. He has been recognized as a Web of Science “Highly Cited Researcher” for four consecutive years since 2016. Dr. Buyya was recognized as Scopus Researcher of the Year 2017 with Excellence in Innovative Research Award from Elsevier; "Lifetime Achievement Awards" from two Indian universities, and the “Best of the World,” in the Computing Systems field, by The Australian 2019 Research Review. Software technologies for Grid, Cloud, and Fog computing developed under Dr. Buyya's leadership have gained rapid acceptance and are in use at several academic institutions and commercial enterprises in 40 countries around the world. Dr. Buyya has led the establishment and development of key community activities, including serving as foundation Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing and five IEEE/ACM conferences. These contributions and the international research leadership of Dr. Buyya are recognized through the award of the “2009 IEEE Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing” from the IEEE Computer Society TCSC. Manjrasoft's Aneka Cloud technology developed under his leadership has received the "Frost & Sullivan New Product Innovation Award." Dr. Buyya served as founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. He is currently serving as Editor-in-Chief of Software: Practice and Experience, a long-standing journal in the field, established more than 50 years ago.

Affiliations and Expertise

Professor and Director, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia

Christian Vecchiola

Christian Vecchiola
Christian Vecchiola is a research member at the IBM Research Lab Australia, located in Melbourne and Research Fellow at the School of Engineering, at the University of Melbourne. His areas of interest include technologies and infrastructures for a smarter planet, disaster management and resilience, cloud computing, and software engineering.

Affiliations and Expertise

University of Melbourne, Australia

S.Thamarai Selvi

S.Thamarai Selvi
Dr. S. Thamarai Selvi, Professor and Head of the Department of Information Technology at Madras Institute of Technology, Anna University, Chennai, India

Affiliations and Expertise

Madras Institute of Technology, Anna University, Chennai, India

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  • Sudharshan k. Sun Sep 30 2018

    Very good book for theory on cloud computing but needs a practical reference..

    Very good book for theory on cloud computing but needs a practical reference.. kindly update the youtube videos