In cloud, can scientific communities benefit from the economies of scale?

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 296-303

  Wang, Lei ^a   Zhan, Jianfeng ^a   Shi, Weisong ^b   Liang, Yi ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Wayne State University   (United States)

^c BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

and high throughput computing; Cloud; economies of scale; many task computing; scientific communities

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIES OF SCALE; END USERS; FLEXIBLE SYSTEM; HIGH-THROUGHPUT COMPUTING; LIGHT-WEIGHT SERVICE; MANAGEMENT LAYER; MANAGEMENT SERVICE; MANAGEMENT TASKS; MANY-TASK COMPUTING; RESOURCE CONSUMPTION; RESOURCE PROVIDERS; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; SERVICE PROVIDER; USAGE MODELS;

CLOUDS; ECONOMICS; INNOVATION; MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 84855349233     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2011.144     Document Type: Article

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