Modern Computing: Vision and Challenges
Sukhpal Singh Gill, Huaming Wu, Panos Patros, Carlo Ottaviani,, Priyansh Arora, Victor Casamayor Pujol, David Haunschild, Ajith Kumar, Parlikad, Oktay Cetinkaya, Hanan Lutfiyya, Vlado Stankovski, Ruidong Li,, Yuemin Ding, Junaid Qadir, Ajith Abraham, Soumya K. Ghosh

TL;DR
This paper reviews the evolution of modern computing systems, highlighting technological trends, emerging paradigms like IoT and quantum computing, and discusses future research challenges and opportunities in the field.
Contribution
It provides a comprehensive assessment of past and current computing paradigms, analyzing drivers of evolution and identifying future research directions and challenges.
Findings
Emergence of new paradigms like cloud, fog, and edge computing.
Rapid obsolescence driven by business and technical constraints.
Shift towards specialized and decentralized computing models.
Abstract
Over the past six decades, the computing systems field has experienced significant transformations, profoundly impacting society with transformational developments, such as the Internet and the commodification of computing. Underpinned by technological advancements, computer systems, far from being static, have been continuously evolving and adapting to cover multifaceted societal niches. This has led to new paradigms such as cloud, fog, edge computing, and the Internet of Things (IoT), which offer fresh economic and creative opportunities. Nevertheless, this rapid change poses complex research challenges, especially in maximizing potential and enhancing functionality. As such, to maintain an economical level of performance that meets ever-tighter requirements, one must understand the drivers of new model emergence and expansion, and how contemporary challenges differ from past ones. To…
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Taxonomy
TopicsIoT and Edge/Fog Computing · Cloud Computing and Resource Management · Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
