C. Hoffa, Gaurang Mehta, T. Freeman
Dec 7, 2008
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2008 IEEE Fourth International Conference on eScience
Abstract
This paper explores the use of cloud computing for scientific workflows, focusing on a widely used astronomy application-Montage. The approach is to evaluate from the point of view of a scientific workflow the tradeoffs between running in a local environment, if such is available, and running in a virtual environment via remote, wide-area network resource access. Our results show that for Montage, a workflow with short job runtimes, the virtual environment can provide good compute time performance but it can suffer from resource scheduling delays and widearea communications.