Overview

Story 1 A study of cost and performance of the application of cloud computing to Astronomy ¹

The performance of three workflow applications with different I/O, memory and CPU requirements are investigated on Amazon EC2 and the performance of cloud are compared with that of a typical HPC (Abe in NCSA).
Also the application of cloud computing to the generation of an atlas of periodograms for the 210,000 light curves is described.

Tools and methods

• Cloud platform: Amazon EC2 (http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/)
• Tools:
• Methods

Cloud performance

Summary

References

1. Berriman, G.B. et al. Sixth IEEE International Conference on e-Science, 1-7 (2010)

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