A performance analysis of EC2 cloud computing services for scientific computing

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering

Volumn 34 LNICST, Issue , 2010, Pages 115-131

  Ostermann, Simon ^a   Iosup, Alexandru ^b   Yigitbasi, Nezih ^b   Prodan, Radu ^a   Fahringer, Thomas ^a   Epema, Dick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMAZON EC2; CLOUD SERVICES; COMMERCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE; COMPUTING HARDWARE; COMPUTING SERVICES; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; PERFORMANCE PENALTIES; PHYSICAL RESOURCES; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

CLOUDS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; SUPERCOMPUTERS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 84885883700     PISSN: 18678211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12636-9_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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