期刊名称：International Journal on Computer Science and Engineering
印刷版ISSN：2229-5631
电子版ISSN：0975-3397
出版年度：2010
卷号：2
期号：5
页码：1841-1845
出版社：Engg Journals Publications
摘要：Cloud computing is an on-demand service model often based on virtualization technique and this paper explores the use of cloud computing for scientific workflows, focusing on a widely used application. 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 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.
