Cost-effective HPC: The community or the cloud?

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 169-176

  Carlyle, Adam G ^a   Harrell, Stephen L ^a   Smith, Preston M ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUAL USAGE PATTERNS; COMMUNITY OR; COMPUTATIONAL PERFORMANCE; COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS; COMPUTING RESOURCE; COST COMPARISONS; END-USERS; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; OUT-OF-POCKET COSTS; PURDUE UNIVERSITY; RESOURCE PROVIDERS; SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION; SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES; SCIENTIFIC WORKFLOWS;

BENCHMARKING; CLUSTER COMPUTING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COSTS; RESEARCH;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 79952418031     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CloudCom.2010.115     Document Type: Conference Paper

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