Jungle computing is a form of
high performance computing that
distributes computational work across
cluster
may refer to:
Science and technology Astronomy
* Cluster (spacecraft), constellation of four European Space Agency spacecraft
* Asteroid cluster, a small asteroid family
* Cluster II (spacecraft), a European Space Agency mission to study th ...
,
grid and
cloud computing.
[Jason Maassen, et al ''Towards jungle computing with Ibis/Constellation'' in Proceedings of the 2011 workshop on Dynamic distributed data-intensive applications, programming abstractions, and systems, ACM New York,]
/ref>[''Jungle Computing: Distributed Supercomputing Beyond Clusters, Grids, and Clouds'' by Frank Seinstra et al in "Grids, Clouds and Virtualization, Computer Communications and Networks", . Springer-Verlag London Limited, 2011, p. 16]
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The increasing complexity of the high performance computing environment has provided a range of choices beside traditional supercomputers and Cluster computing , clusters. Scientists can now use grid and cloud infrastructures, in a variety of combinations along with traditional supercomputers - all connected via fast networks. And the emergence of many-core technologies such as GPUs, as well as supercomputers on chip within these environments has added to the complexity. Thus, high-performance computing can now use multiple diverse platforms and systems simultaneously, giving rise to the term "computing jungle".
See also
* Heterogeneous computing
References
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