1. PDCAT’2000 Panel, Hong Kong ”The Application of PDC (Parallel and Distributed Computing) and Technique in E-Commerce”
Rajkumar Buyya
School of Computer Science and Software Engineering
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia |
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2. E-Commerce and PDC: Panel ?
What are/will be the major problems/issues in eCommerce? How will or can PDC be applied to solve some of them?
Other than “Compute Power”, what else can PDC contribute to e-commerce?
How would/could the different forms of PDC (clusters, hypercluster, GRID,…) be applied to e-commerce?
Could you describe one hot research topic for PDC applying to e-commerce?
A killer e-commerce application for PDC ?
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3. Killer Applications of Clusters
Numerous Scientific & Engineering Apps.
Parametric Simulations
Business Applications
E-commerce Applications (Amazon.com, eBay.com ….)
Database Applications (Oracle on cluster)
Decision Support Systems
Internet Applications
Web serving / searching
Infowares (yahoo.com, AOL.com)
ASPs (application service providers)
, eChat, ePhone, eBook, eCommerce, eBank, eSociety, eAnything!
Computing Portals
Mission Critical Applications
command control systems, banks, nuclear reactor control, star-war, and handling life threatening situations.

4. Major problems/issues in E-commerce
Social Issues
Capacity Planning
Multilevel Business Support (e.g., B2P2C)
Information Storage, Retrieval, and Update
Performance
Heterogeneity
System Scalability
System Reliability
Identification and Authentication
System Expandability
Security
Cyber Attacks Detection and Control (cyberguard)
Data Replication, Consistency, and Caching
Manageability (administration and control)

5. Amazon.com: Online sales/trading killer E-commerce Portal
Several Thousands of Items
books, publishers, suppliers
Millions of Customers
Customers details, transactions details, support for transactions update
(Millions) of Partners
Keep track of partners details, tracking referral link to partner and sales and payment
Sales based on advertised price
Sales through auction/bids
A mechanism for participating in the bid (buyers/sellers define rules of the game)

6. Can these drive E-Commerce ?
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Can these drive E-Commerce ?
Clusters are already in use for web serving, web-hosting, and number of other Internet applications including E-commerce
scalability, availability, performance, reliable-high performance-massive storage and database support.
Attempts to support online detection of cyber attacks (through data mining) and control
Hyperclusters and the GRID:
Support for transparency in (secure) Site/Data Replication for high availability and quick response time (taking site close to the user).
Compute power from hyperclusters/Grid can be used for data mining for cyber attacks and fraud detection and control.
Helps to build Compute Power Market, ASPs, and Computing Portals.

7. Grid Information Server Other components of local resource manager
Compute Power Market
Grid Information Server
Grid Explorer
Application
Job Control
Agent
Trading
Schedule Advisor
Trade Server
Other components of local resource manager
Resource
Reservation
Trade Manager
Deployment Agent
Resource Allocation R1 R2 … Rn
User
Resource Broker
A Resource Domain

8. PDC hot topics for E-commerce
Cluster based web-servers, search engineers, portals…
Scheduling and Single System Image.
Heterogeneous Computing
Reliability and High Availability and Data Recovery
Parallel Databases and high performance-reliable-mass storage systems.
CyberGuard! Data mining for detection of cyber attacks, frauds, etc. detection and online control.
Data Mining for identifying sales pattern and automatically tuning portal to special sessions/festival sales
eCash, eCheque, eBank, eSociety, eGovernment, eEntertainment, eTravel, eGoods, and so on.
Data/Site Replications and Caching techniques
Compute Power Market
Infowares (yahoo.com, AOL.com)
ASPs (application service providers)
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