Cloud Computing Application in HK & China

Francis Ng Cluster Technology Limited

AGENDA

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Some History Why AMZN provides Public Cloud Service? Biz model used by IBM and AMZN Cluster Technology Limited Background Client Descriptions Business Case: Bank of China

Some History

Problem with Grid Computing / Parallel Computing

High admin cost Difficult to use from lay users perspective Users still have to be aware of the physical hardware layer - # of nodes, etc.

Cloud Computing

Users are transparent to the physical hardware through hardware virtualization It scale-in / scale-out based on pre-defined usage criteria. Administration cost is decreased. IT resources are better utilized.

Cloud Computing Structure

SLA Capacity Planning

Dynamic Scheduling

Monitoring

Cloud services - Request Driven Provisioning

Innovation Enablement Software Development Web 2.0 Data Intensive Processing Scalable Transaction Processing

Workloads
Virtual Virtual Virtual Application Application Application Server Server Server

Virtualization

Virtual Servers

Virtual Storage

Virtual Networks

Physical Hardware
Src: IBM Cloud Computing

Cost Structure of Public Cloud Service

Cost Structure of Public Cloud and Traditional IT Expense
2500 2000

Fixed Cost

IT Expense ($)

1500 1000

500

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 No. of Users 7 8 9 10 11

Traditional

Cloud

2 Points to Note:

Initial fixed cost is switched from users to service providers As users become increasingly rely on server access, it is cheaper for users to implement their own IT infrastructure

Why AMZN provides Public Cloud Services?

From service providers viewpoints, it has high initial fixed cost, so why are they still doing it?

The players are: Google, Amazon, IBM

They have already built a hugh IT infrastructure to handle their peak load.

Internally, AMZN want to utilize their IT resources to save their IT expenditure

Cloud Service solves their own problem. And they could take advantage of their existing IT infrastructure by make business use of it

=> Public Cloud Services is born

Business Model on Cloud Services 1/2

Public Cloud

Software as a Service (SaaS) charge by app. usage/no. of accounts

Google App for Enterprises Saleforce.com

Platform as a Service (PaaS) charge by partnership with system integrators, app. developed on the platform

Google App Engine Windows Azure Platform (include SQL services, sharePoint services, Dynamics CRM) Amazon SimpleDB

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) charge by usage (eg. Bandwidth, amount of data accessed/month)

Amazon S3, Amazon EC2

Business Model on Cloud Services 2/2

Private Cloud

Offer solutions of hardware setup, software installation, consultation for corporates, data-centers Turnover rate is fast All major cloud service providers are entering and offering solutions in this area Reasons include better data privacy, backup policy could be controlled by corporations

Future: Public Cloud + Private Cloud => Hybrid Cloud

About ClusterTech
CLUSTERTECH was founded in 2000. CLUSTERTECH headquarters in the Hong Kong Science Park

CLUSTERTECH has 70 professional staffs with advanced degrees (16

Ph.D.s) in science and engineering and reputable clients in financial and government sectors.

CLUSTERTECH is a one-stop provider offering high performance computing

and business intelligence solutions, through in-house developed CPE, CGE, and CHESS platforms.

Client Lists

HSBC

Different artificial intelligence modelling techniques were developed to forecast capital flows and market directions in foreign exchange.

Hong Kong Observatory

Provided consulting and software implementation on its numerical weather forecast platforms

Ping An Insurance

Provided data cleansing and mining solution to Ping An Insurance on their insurance customer database

Business Case: Bank of China

Problem and Requirements:

Fast access on market data High computational job, lots of batch processing Required system stability and high availability Scale-up and scale-out with minimal admin cost

A customized solution with Clouds Architecture:

Take advantage of our expertise in parallel computing Users do not see the physical hardware layers, only the cloud Empowers client with scalable software (SaaS) and infrastructure (IaaS)

Overall Cloud Applications

Application I: Low Latency Market Data Service

e.g. Reuters, Bloomberg, HKEX

Application II: Computational Service

Application III: Parallel Monte Carlo Sim.

Application IV: Middle Office Data Backup

Business Case Summary

A customized solution with clouds architecture:

Software

Low latency market data access An excel module to assign job for parallel monte carlo simulation on the cloud for fair pricing

Infrastructure

Users could assign computational intensive jobs to the cloud Users could take advantage of database stored in the cloud for safe storage

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