AzureBench: Benchmarking the storage services of the Azure cloud platform

Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE 26th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops, IPDPSW 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1048-1057

  Agarwal, Dinesh ^a   Prasad, Sushil K ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Azure Cloud benchmarks; Azure storage services; Cloud computing; Scientific applications on Cloud

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION DESIGN; APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT; APPLICATION FRAMEWORKS; AZURE CLOUD BENCHMARKS; BENCHMARK SUITES; BEST-EFFORT; COMPREHENSIVE PERFORMANCE; E-SCIENCE; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING (HPC); MAP-REDUCE; MICROSOFT; OPEN-SOURCE; PERFORMANCE CAPABILITY; PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS; PERFORMANCE GUARANTEES; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; RESOURCE PROVISIONING; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS; SERVICE OFFERING; STEEP LEARNING CURVE; STORAGE SERVICES;

CLOUD COMPUTING; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING; WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 84867421128     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPSW.2012.128     Document Type: Conference Paper

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