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Published December 2008 | Published
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On the Use of Cloud Computing for Scientific Workflows

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 wide-area communications.

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© 2008 IEEE. This work was supported in part by NSF under grant #CCF-0725332, by the Computing Research Association's Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates program, and by USC's Women in Science and Engineering program. This research made use of Montage, funded by NASA's ESTO, Computation Technologies Project, under Cooperative Agreement #NCC5-626 between NASA and Caltech. Montage is maintained by the NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive. The authors would also like to thank Shishir Bharathi for his performance analysis codes.

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