Practical cloud evaluation from a Nordic escience user perspective

VTDC'11 - Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Virtualization Technologies in Distributed Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 29-37

  Edlund, Åke ^a   Koopmans, Maarten ^b   Shah, Zeeshan Ali ^a   Livenson, Ilja ^a   Orellana, Frederik ^c   Kommeri, Jukka ^d   Tuisku, Miika ^d   Lehtovuori, Pekka ^e   Neukirchen, Helmut ^f   Hansen, Klaus Marius ^g   Hvannberg, Ebba ^g  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Vrijheidnet   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d HELSINKI INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Finland)

^e CSC Scientific Computing Ltd   (Finland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Evaluation of performance cost; Experimenting; Usability

Indexed keywords

CLOUD SERVICES; COST EFFICIENCY; DENMARK; E-SCIENCE; EXPERIMENTING; FINLAND; ICELANDS; LOW MEMORY; MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE; MEMORY REQUIREMENTS; NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE; OFF-LOADING; PERFORMANCE COSTS; SINGLE-THREADED; STORAGE CAPACITY; THIRD PARTIES; USABILITY; USER EXPERIENCE;

CLOUDS; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; SUPERCOMPUTERS; TECHNOLOGY; VIRTUAL REALITY; WEB SERVICES;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 79960200862     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1996121.1996129     Document Type: Conference Paper

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