Cloud computing : application on data farming

• Main Author: Yong, Yong Cheng.
• Other Authors: Low Yoke Hean, Malcolm
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Data; DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computer systems organization::Computer-communication networks
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/42453
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Objective-Based Data Farming requires massive amount of computing power to run thousands/millions of simulations. To acquire this massive amount of computing power, one has to own the infrastructure: a cluster/grid of many cheap computers or an expensive supercomputer. Both actions amount to an e...