AzureBlast: A case study of developing science applications on the cloud

HPDC 2010 - Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 413-420

  Lu, Wei ^a   Jackson, Jared ^a   Barga, Roger ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

BLAST; Cloud computing; Windows azure

Indexed keywords

BEST-PRACTICES; BLAST; CLOUD COMPUTING; CLOUD MODELS; COMPUTATIONALLY INTENSIVE ALGORITHMS; DATA INTENSIVE; LARGE-SCALE COMPUTING; LIFE-SCIENCES; MICROSOFT; NEW APPROACHES; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; RESEARCH COMPUTING; SCIENCE APPLICATIONS; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS; SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES;

ALGORITHMS; BIOINFORMATICS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; RESEARCH;

WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM;

EID: 78650035595     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1851476.1851537     Document Type: Conference Paper

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