Performance and cost analysis of the Supernova factory on the Amazon AWS cloud

Scientific Programming

Volumn 19, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 107-119

  Jackson, Keith R ^a   Muriki, Krishna ^a   Ramakrishnan, Lavanya ^a   Runge, Karl J ^a   Thomas, Rollin C ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

AWS cloud; Cloud computing; Supernova factory

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COST ACCOUNTING; IMAGE PROCESSING; PIPELINES; STARS; USER INTERFACES; WEB SERVICES;

AMAZON EC2; AMAZON WEB SERVICES; APPLICATION DATA; AWS CLOUD; COST ANALYSIS; DARK ENERGY; DESIGN OPTION; IMAGE PROCESSING ALGORITHM; LOCAL CLUSTER; NEW PHYSICS; SERIAL PROCESS; SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENTS; SUPERNOVA FACTORY; UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA; VIRTUAL CLUSTERS;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 79960765406     PISSN: 10589244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/SPR-2011-0324     Document Type: Article

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