Can cloud computing reach the TOP500?

Proc. Combined Workshops on UnConventional High Performance Computing Workshop Plus Memory Access Workshop, UCHPC-MAW '09, Co-located with the 2009 ACM Int. Conf. on Computing Frontiers, CF'09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 17-20

  Napper, Jeffrey ^a   Bientinesiy, Paolo ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Measurement; Performance

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; DATABASE QUERIES; FLEXIBLE SUPPORTS; LARGE CLUSTERS; LINPACK BENCHMARK; MAINTENANCE COST; MONETARY RESOURCES; NUMERICAL APPLICATIONS; ON-DEMAND; PAY AS YOU GO; WEB APPLICATION;

ECONOMICS; MAINTENANCE; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 77952199094     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1531666.1531671     Document Type: Conference Paper

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