Finding tropical cyclones on a cloud computing cluster: Using parallel virtualization for large-scale climate simulation analysis

Proceedings - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, CloudCom 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 201-208

  Hasenkamp, D ^a   Sim, A ^a   Wehner, M ^a   Wu, K ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate data; Cloud computing; Parallelization; Tropical cyclone; Virtual machine; Virtualization

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE DATA; PARALLELIZATION; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLUSTER COMPUTING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DATA REDUCTION; DATA TRANSFER; HURRICANES; QUALITY ASSURANCE; STORMS; TROPICS;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 79952375191     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CloudCom.2010.68     Document Type: Conference Paper

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