A funding and governing model for achieving sustainable growth of computing e-infrastructures

作者：Mohammed Ashraf A Bany; Altmann Joern^*

来源：Annales des Telecommunications, 2010, 65(11-12): 739-756.

DOI：10.1007/s12243-010-0188-9

• Grid and cloud economics
• Business models
• Funding
• Governance
• Case study analysis
• Sustainability
• Grid computing
• High-performance computing
• Token-based market mechanism
• Computing services
• Analytical modeling

The current access policies and funding schemes of computing e-infrastructures represent a huge challenge for the sustainable growth of computing e-infrastructures and a serious jeopardy for investments made into these e-infrastructures. In order to be able to address these issues, the economics of computing e-infrastructures has to be understood thoroughly. As a first step in this direction, this paper conducts a set of computing e-infrastructure case studies and discusses the economic issues of different global computing e-infrastructure efforts. The analyses results show that the major shortcomings that need to be resolved are the insufficient involvement of the private sector in the development of computing e-infrastructures, the restricted user access to e-infrastructure resources, and the lack of sustainable funding. As a solution to these shortcomings, we propose a new funding and governing model for computing e-infrastructures. It follows a token-based market mechanism that allows a business-oriented operation of the computing e-infrastructure. We argue that this new model fosters the transition towards a sustainable computing e-infrastructure, being another requirement for successfully implementing the cloud computing vision. Our arguments are supported by an analytical analysis.

• 出版日期2010-12