FCSCST1133Data Engineering Ecosystem

SCST1133 · Topic 01

Modern and Emerging Computing

Explore the major computing models shaping contemporary systems.

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Different models serve different workloads

Cloud, edge, IoT, accelerators, high-performance and quantum systems address different constraints.

Six models in the modern computing landscape
Figure 16. Modern computing models vary in location, scale, latency and specialisation.

Compare the landscape

ModelPrimary idea
CloudShared resources delivered on demand.
EdgeProcessing located near the data source.
IoTConnected devices and sensors.
AI acceleratorsSpecialised hardware for model computation.
High-performance computingLarge-scale parallel computation.
Quantum computingEmerging computation for specialised classes of problems.