What are cloud computing testbeds?

IBM Cloud Computing and Autonomic Computing: IBM first introduced the term "Autonomic Computing" in 2001 and issued a Grand Challenge to the industry to build computer systems that regulate themselves much in the same way the autonomic nervous system regulates and protects the human body. Autonomic Computing was unveiled as a solution to combat the rising complexity of managing advanced computer systems. IBM has since integrated autonomic capabilities in over 500 product features into more than 100 distinct products and services. With Autonomic Computing, the company has focused on simplifying data center operations with virtualization, provisioning, databases, maintenance, energy management, security and other areas.



The word green soon embodied the word "word cloud". efficiency, energy or overall ROI with an idea of 1000+ servers working to produce the best results for a human crowd working across. The relatedness of cost is more important with cloud networks as freeware is considered more desirable. Also the usage of latest technologies at a lower cost is the ultimate goal. It is like perestroika in the communist regime.



Lets break down the game as why testbed environments are getting popular and in case of amazon and Google,even Internet industrial use.

How Amazon cashes in on its Cloud http://www.it-analysis.com/blogs/Judith_Hurwitz/2008/5/how_amazon_cashes_in_on_its_cloud.html clearly mentions how Amazon is able to scale on hardware growth which its customers will find hard to match like 10GB to 100 TB in a month . Amazon offers cheaper more reliable options by virtualization of servers. Also Amazon gets the best services and applications for the customer to use. The cloud theory breaks down traditional paradigms of world computing.



Google by offering free applications like gmail/picassa has taken the cloud theory beyond the natural office which debunks even free OS offers like linux coupling with Jboss. The much touted web browser can be even vitalized using applications like citrix or even invoking virtual desktops with technologies like Logmein and TeamPlayer.



So what essentially is a cloud is defined by industrial preference to use the servers and reorganization of servers for the same. for example cuil boasts of a huge database of index servers which seems less efficient than google index database. However cuil industrial use may beat google for category based search and cuil will co-exist with google for high end searches.



Internet clouds are a interlinked clouds with millions of servers and active trillions of clients requesting soap, on demand services from multiple gadgets. The ability to provide results in cost efficient way is the testbed cloud server maze testing. Example google stores its picassa servers on virtualization for hardware reasons for active accounts only would be a test ingredient for a cloud server arrangement. example google.co.uk could host it instead of cloud google.co.in





A rudimentary test cloud bed would be based on on demand applications for the internet with analysis of emerging applications with focus of backward compatibility with the old world internet








HP, Yahoo, Intel Launch Cloud Computing Test Bed have launched a new cloud computing research initiative called the Cloud Computing Test Bed. Users will be able to build and launch new applications on the platform.
It’s being described as “a globally distributed, Internet-scale testing environment designed to encourage research on the software, data center management and hardware issues associated with cloud computing at a larger scale than ever before.” Other partners include the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) (which is distinct from the MDA, I believe, which is unfortunate), the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany:

Governments have also launched non internet cloud beds like the e-governance initiatives of Indian government with automatic ballot boxes, e-fling taxes, pan cards. It makes more sense in a low cost cloud network to achieve results of the numerous application and the usage can be better patronized.