ABSTRACT

University of Applied Sciences, Western Switzerland (HES-SO), Geneva, Switzerland

Marko Niinimaki

University of Applied Sciences, Western Switzerland (HES-SO), Geneva, Switzerland

Mohamed BenBelgacem

University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

The scene of distributed computing has been changing considerably since the early 2000s. As an example, Buyya et al. [BYV08] state in an influential paper that new computing paradigms include cluster computing, Grid computing, peer-to-peer (P2P) computing, service computing, market-oriented

computing, and cloud computing. They estimate the value of the combination of these, a “utility/pervasive computing industry”, to be one trillion $.