A Comparative Analysis of Resource Management in Cloud and Grid Computing

Cloud computing and Grid computing are two intricately connected concepts which are very popular among researchers as well as users because of its efficient resource management capability. Numbers of definitions have been given till now for Cloud and Grid. Both of these computing paradigms are milestones for the revolutionary change that has come into the field of distributed computing but when we talk about resource management then how these two paradigms differ from each other?, which one is better and why? What are the considerations which one has to think upon while using any of these two? In this paper we have tried to answer all these questions by doing a 360 degree comparative analysis in context of resource management. In the first section we have given an introduction of Grid and Cloud Computing paradigm and have described the Grids and Clouds resource management. In the next section we have explained the concepts whose understanding is must in order to understand the challenges faced by these two computing paradigms. In the next section we have presented a table which gives a comparative overview of these two computing paradigms. We have tried to bring out the challenges being faced today by these two computing paradigms. Finally we have drawn some conclusions based on our analysis and have suggested some future work in this area. Keywords— TeraGrid, GridFTP, WSDL, SOAP, Lrm