On the Use of Cloud Computing for Scientific Workflows
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- 1 December 2008
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Vol. 4331, 640-645
- https://doi.org/10.1109/escience.2008.167
Abstract
This paper explores the use of cloud computing for scientific workflows, focusing on a widely used astronomy application-Montage. The approach is to evaluate from the point of view of a scientific workflow the tradeoffs between running in a local environment, if such is available, and running in a virtual environment via remote, wide-area network resource access. Our results show that for Montage, a workflow with short job runtimes, the virtual environment can provide good compute time performance but it can suffer from resource scheduling delays and widearea communications.Keywords
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