Reading 1

Understanding the Performance and Potential of Cloud Computing for Scientific Applications

Read the following paper and respond to the questions on Piazza.

Lecture A2 reading: Understanding the Performance and Potential of Cloud Computing for Scientific Applications

Questions

1. What is the aim of the study?
2. Which infrastructures are compared?
3. What is the methodology?
4. What is the overhead in the memory, network, compute and storage components?