Performance Prediction for HPC on Clouds

Cloud Computing: Principles and Paradigms

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 437-456

  Aversa, Rocco ^a   Di Martino, Beniamino ^a   Rak, Massimiliano ^a   Venticinque, Salvatore ^a   Villano, Umberto ^b  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

"Grid vs Cloud," title of an incredible number of recent Web blogs and articles in on line forums and magazines; HPC in the cloud performance related issues; Performance prediction for HPC on clouds high performance computing (HPC), one of the contexts in which adoption of cloud computing paradigm is debated

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886126916     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470940105.ch17     Document Type: Chapter

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