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Examining Cloud Computing from the Perspective of Grid and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work

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Cloud computing, which refers to services provisioning and consumption over the Internet, is the latest paradigm promising to deliver computing as a utility. Though it is still in its infancy and facing many challenges, cloud computing has drawn and is drawing more interest from both academia and industry. Taking grid computing as the baseline and using the findings in computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) research, this chapter tries to answer such questions as why cloud computing is so attractive and how to make the vision of cloud computing really come true.

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    SAGA is an open standard defined and maintained by the Open Grid Forum (OGF). Its aim is to provide an interface for high-level grid application programming and enable application developers to write programs without knowing the detail of specific infrastructures.

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    http://www.cloudsecurityalliance.org/

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    http://www.occi-wg.org/

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    http://www.snia.org/cloud

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    http://opencloudconsortium.org/

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Acknowledgments

The work reported here is co-sponsored by Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under grant Nos. 60773145 and 60736020, and National High-Tech R&D (863) Program of China under grant Nos. 2006AA01A101, 2006AA01A108, 2006AA01A111, and 2006AA01A117.

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  1. Department of Computer Science & Technology, Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science & Technology, Tsinghua University, 100084, Beijing, P.R. China

    Jinlei Jiang

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Jiang, J., Yang, G. (2010). Examining Cloud Computing from the Perspective of Grid and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. In: Antonopoulos, N., Gillam, L. (eds) Cloud Computing. Computer Communications and Networks. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-241-4_4

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