2019/06/25 by Aleksander Slominski, Slominski, Aleksander, Vinod Muthusamy +3
Computer Science · Engineering · #Advanced Data Storage Technologies #Business #Cloud Computing and Resource Management #Cloud computing #Cloud computing security #Computer science #Computers and Society (cs.CY) #Data science #Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems #Distributed computing #Electrical engineering #Electricity #Engineering #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Focus (optics) #Grid #Grid computing #Operating system #Risk analysis (engineering) #Scale (ratio) #Smart grid #Standardization #Utility computing #cs.CY
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1906.10398
arxiv created 2019/06/25 · openalex publication_date 2019/06/25 · arxiv updated 2019/06/26 · openalex created_date 2019/07/12 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We see a trend where computing becomes a metered utility similar to how the electric grid evolved. Initially electricity was generated locally but economies of scale (and standardization) made it more efficient and economical to have utility companies managing the electric grid. Similar developments can be seen in computing where scientific grids paved the way for commercial cloud computing offerings. However, in our opinion, that evolution is far from finished and in this paper we bring forward the remaining challenges and propose a vision for the future of computing. In particular we focus on changes in cost of computing and high cost of human time in comparison that indicates that saving developer time is the most important for future of computing.