A quantitative analysis of high performance computing with Amazon's EC2 infrastructure: The death of the local cluster?

Proceedings - IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 26-33

  Hill, Zach ^a   Humphrey, Marty ^a  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS-IT; COMMODITY CLUSTERS; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; GIGABIT ETHERNET; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; HPC CLUSTERS; LOCAL CLUSTER; MEMORY BANDWIDTHS; ON-DEMAND; PERFORMANCE IMPACT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

CLUSTER COMPUTING; ETHERNET;

GRID COMPUTING;

EID: 77749323131     PISSN: 15505510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GRID.2009.5353067     Document Type: Conference Paper

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