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Cloud computing has become the cornerstone of modern IT infrastructure, offering a wide range of general-purpose instances optimized for diverse workloads. This paper provides a comparative analysis of cost and performance for…
Azure Cloud offers a wide range of resources for running HPC workloads, requiring users to configure their deployment by selecting VM types, number of VMs, and processes per VM. Suboptimal decisions may lead to longer execution times or…
Virtual machines and virtualized hardware have been around for over half a century. The commoditization of the x86 platform and its rapidly growing hardware capabilities have led to recent exponential growth in the use of virtualization…
The rise of AI and the economic dominance of cloud computing have created a new nexus of innovation for high performance computing (HPC), which has a long history of driving scientific discovery. In addition to performance needs, scientific…
Cloud providers offer a variety of execution platforms in form of bare-metal, VM, and containers. However, due to the pros and cons of each execution platform, choosing the appropriate platform for a specific cloud-based application has…
New pricing policies are emerging where cloud providers charge resource provisioning based on the allocated CPU frequencies. As a result, resources are offered to users as combinations of different performance levels and prices which can be…
New dynamic cloud pricing options are emerging with cloud providers offering resources as a wide range of CPU frequencies and matching prices that can be switched at runtime. On the other hand, cloud providers are facing the problem of…
Recent development in lightweight OS-level virtualization, containers, provides a potential solution for running HPC applications on the cloud platform. In this work, we focus on the impact of different layers in a containerized environment…
While state-of-the-art permissioned blockchains can achieve thousands of transactions per second on commodity hardware with x86/64 architecture, their performance when running on different architectures is not clear. The goal of this work…
The proliferation of commercial cloud computing providers has generated significant interest in the scientific computing community. Much recent research has attempted to determine the benefits and drawbacks of cloud computing for scientific…
Serverless computing offers a pay-per-use model with high elasticity and automatic scaling for a wide range of applications. Since cloud providers abstract most of the underlying infrastructure, these services work similarly to black-boxes.…
Recent technology advancements in the areas of compute, storage and networking, along with the increased demand for organizations to cut costs while remaining responsive to increasing service demands have led to the growth in the adoption…
Cloud computing represents an appealing opportunity for cost-effective deployment of HPC workloads on the best-fitting hardware. However, although cloud and on-premise HPC systems offer similar computational resources, their network…
Public cloud computing environments, such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and the Google Cloud Platform, have achieved remarkable improvements in computational performance in recent years, and are also expected to be able to perform…
The concept of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has been introduced as a new paradigm in the recent few years. NFV offers a number of benefits including significantly increased maintainability and reduced deployment overhead. Several…
Althoughthereislittleempiricalresearchonplatform-specific performance for retail workloads, the digital transformation of the retail industry has accelerated the adoption of cloud-based Point-of-Sale (POS) systems. This paper presents a…
Cloud computing provides ubiquitous and on-demand access to vast reconfigurable resources that can meet any computational need. Many service models are available, but the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) model is particularly suited to…
We analyze a recently published dataset of 396 real-world cloud architectures deployed on AWS, from companies belonging to a wide range of industries. From this dataset, we identify those architectures that contain HPC or edge components…
HPC world is dominated by x86 ISA CPUs. This monoculture is not necessarily justified by best performance evaluation, but may inherit from e.g. SW related restrictions on the choice of HW platforms. To avoid running (further) into path…
Cloud computing has become the ubiquitous computing and storage paradigm. It is also attractive for scientists, because they do not have to care any more for their own IT infrastructure, but can outsource it to a Cloud Service Provider of…