TY - GEN
T1 - Cost-benefit analysis of cloud codlputing versus desktop grids
AU - Kondo, Derrick
AU - Javadi, Bahman
AU - Malecot, Paul
AU - Cappello, Franck
AU - Anderson, David P.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Cloud Computing has taken commercial computing by storm. However, adoption of cloud computing platforms and services by the scientific community is in its infancy as the performance and monetary cost-benefits for scientific applications are not perfectly clear. This is especially true for desktop grids (aka volunteer computing) applications. We compare and contrast the performance and monetary cost-benefits of clouds for desktop grid applications, ranging in computational size and storage. We address the following questions: (i) What are the performance tradeoffs in using one platform over the other? (ii) What are the specific resource requirements and monetary costs of creating and deploying applications on each platform? (iii) In light of those monetary and performance cost-benefits, how do these platforms compare? (iv) Can cloud computing platforms be used in combination with desktop grids to improve cost-effectiveness evenfurther? We examine those questions using performance measurements and monetary expenses ofreal desktop grids and the Amazon elastic compute cloud.
AB - Cloud Computing has taken commercial computing by storm. However, adoption of cloud computing platforms and services by the scientific community is in its infancy as the performance and monetary cost-benefits for scientific applications are not perfectly clear. This is especially true for desktop grids (aka volunteer computing) applications. We compare and contrast the performance and monetary cost-benefits of clouds for desktop grid applications, ranging in computational size and storage. We address the following questions: (i) What are the performance tradeoffs in using one platform over the other? (ii) What are the specific resource requirements and monetary costs of creating and deploying applications on each platform? (iii) In light of those monetary and performance cost-benefits, how do these platforms compare? (iv) Can cloud computing platforms be used in combination with desktop grids to improve cost-effectiveness evenfurther? We examine those questions using performance measurements and monetary expenses ofreal desktop grids and the Amazon elastic compute cloud.
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U2 - 10.1109/IPDPS.2009.5160911
DO - 10.1109/IPDPS.2009.5160911
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:70449877813
SN - 9781424437504
T3 - IPDPS 2009 - Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
BT - IPDPS 2009 - Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
T2 - 23rd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2009
Y2 - 23 May 2009 through 29 May 2009
ER -