Cloud Computing, 2nd Edition

Preface to the Second Edition

Almost half a century after the dawn of the computing era, an eternity in the age of silicon, the disruptive multicore technology forced the computational science community and the application developers to realize the need to understand and exploit concurrency. There is no point now to wait for faster clock rates, we better design algorithms and applications able to use the multiple cores of a modern processor.

The thinking changed again when cloud computing showed that there are new applications that can effortlessly exploit concurrency and, in the process, generate huge revenues. A new era in parallel and distributed systems began, the time of Big Data hiding nuggets of useful information and requiring massive ...