Emerging Computing Platforms for Solving Complex Engineering Problems

The basic utilities such as electricity, gas, and water are the types of services that can be commercialized and delivered at the doorstep of a user. The user is not concerned about the location of the service provider or the method of the service delivery. Computing is a new utility whose nature has been intensely transformed to a traditional utility where users can utilize the services as per their requirement and irrespective of their location. The significant advancement in information and communication technology needs a type of computing, which is required to meet the everyday demands of the generic computing class of users. There are many computing models such as cluster computing, grid computing, cloud computing, and many more which have been used in solving complicated problems of science and engineering. This chapter discusses the latest computing platforms which can provide fundamental computing services to users for fulfilling their computational needs.