TY - GEN
T1 - Abstractions for loosely-coupled and ensemble-based simulations on Azure
AU - Luckow, André
AU - Jha, Shantenu
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Azure is an emerging cloud platform developed and operated by Microsoft. It provides a range of abstractions and building blocks for creating scalable and reliable scientific applications. In this paper we investigate the applicability of the Azure abstractions to the well-known class of loosely coupled and ensemble-based applications. We propose the BigJob API as a novel abstraction for managing groups of Azure worker roles and for remotely executing tasks on them. We demonstrate that Azure enhanced with BigJob functionality provides performance comparable to other grid and cloud offerings loosely-coupled applications.
AB - Azure is an emerging cloud platform developed and operated by Microsoft. It provides a range of abstractions and building blocks for creating scalable and reliable scientific applications. In this paper we investigate the applicability of the Azure abstractions to the well-known class of loosely coupled and ensemble-based applications. We propose the BigJob API as a novel abstraction for managing groups of Azure worker roles and for remotely executing tasks on them. We demonstrate that Azure enhanced with BigJob functionality provides performance comparable to other grid and cloud offerings loosely-coupled applications.
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U2 - 10.1109/CloudCom.2010.85
DO - 10.1109/CloudCom.2010.85
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79952385796
SN - 9780769543024
T3 - Proceedings - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, CloudCom 2010
SP - 550
EP - 556
BT - Proceedings - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, CloudCom 2010
T2 - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, CloudCom 2010
Y2 - 30 November 2010 through 3 December 2010
ER -