Unit 6 -1
Discussion
Any application that is data- and computing-intensive will be a good candidate for a services based on cloud computing. Visualizing large-scale data sets is one such application. Visualizing large-scale data sets involves two aspects—large-scale data processing and a visualization interface. To use the cloud computing environment for large-scale data processing, you need to consider the network performance issues such as “the unevenness of bandwidth of computer pairs” that will be discussed in another assignment (Sakr & Gaber, 2014). Now you are focusing on the visualization interface aspect. Authors have proposed a prototype framework for the design of visualization service to the big data coming from the cloud computing environment (Tanashi et al., 2010). The authors discuss the end-user functionality supported by the framework and their technical decisions on how to implement the framework.
Complete the reading assignment, and search the Library and Internet to find and study additional references that discuss how to visualize large-scale data sets in a cloud computing environment. Based on the results of your research, discuss the following questions:
· What is the end-user functionality of the framework reported in Tanahashi et al.?
· What are the technical design decisions that have an impact on the performance of the framework?