Advance Computing Technology - Jun 2014

Computer Engineering (Semester 7)

TOTAL MARKS: 100
TOTAL TIME: 3 HOURS (1) Question 1 is compulsory.
(2) Attempt any four from the remaining questions.
(3) Assume data wherever required.
(4) Figures to the right indicate full marks. 1 (a) What is cluster computing? Explain different scalable computer architecture in Detail.(7 marks) 1 (b) Explain cluster classification in detail.(7 marks) 2 (a) What is Resource Management Scheduling (RMS) in cluster computing? Explain the services provided by it.(7 marks) 2 (b) Explain High performance virtual machine (HPVM) project and Beowulf project in cluster computing?(7 marks) 2 (c) What is cluster tuning? Explain the policies used for cluster tuning.(7 marks) 3 (a) Define Grid Computing? What are components of Grid? Explain the applications of Grid Computing.(7 marks) 3 (b) What is Virtual organization? Explain different protocol, services, and tools to build scalable Virtual organization?(7 marks) 3 (c) Explain Grid architecture in detail.(7 marks) 3 (d) Why there is need of Grid Computing? Explain Web Resource Framework in detail in Grid Computing.(7 marks) 4 (a) Define Cloud Computing? Explain the features of Cloud Computing.(7 marks) 4 (b) Explain benefit and limitations of Cloud Computing.(7 marks) 4 (c) Explain Private Cloud,Public Cloud and Hybrid Cloud in detail.(7 marks) 4 (d) Explain Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS), Platform as a Service(PaaS) and Software as a Service(SaaS) in Cloud Computing.(7 marks) 5 (a) Explain the Cloud Components in detail.(7 marks) 5 (b) Explain the situation when we can use Cloud Computing and when we can not use Cloud Computing.(7 marks) 5 (c) Mention the characteristics of Workload and Explain the different types of Workload.(7 marks) 5 (d) List different types of data stored in Cloud. Compare traditional IT Service Provider and Cloud Service Provider.(7 marks)