On the Use of Cloud Computing for Scientific Workflows

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 v...

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Published in:	2008 IEEE Fourth International Conference on eScience pp. 640 - 645
Main Authors:	Hoffa, C., Mehta, G., Freeman, T., Deelman, E., Keahey, K., Berriman, B., Good, J.
Format:	Conference Proceeding
Language:	English
Published:	IEEE 01-12-2008
Subjects:	Astronomy Cloud computing Costs Grid computing Internet Laboratories Power grids Resource management Runtime Virtual environment virtual machine workflow
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