Workshops & Special Sessions
SWBES08: Challenging Issues in Workflow Applications
On the Use of Cloud Computing for Scientific Workflows
Presenters and Authors
- Christina Hoffa
- Gaurang Mehta
- Ewa Deelman
- Timothy Freeman
- Kate Keahey
- Bruce Berriman
- John Good
Abstract
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 wide-area communications.
Date and Time
Wednesday, December 10, 4:30–5 p.m.
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