Paper Info
Title
Performance Analysis of High Performance Computing Applications on the Amazon Web Services Cloud
Abstract
Cloud computing has seen tremendous growth, particularly for commercial web applications. The on-demand, pay-as-you-go model creates a flexible and cost-effective means to access compute resources. For these reasons, the scientific computing community has shown increasing interest in exploring cloud computing. However, the underlying implementation and performance of clouds are very different from those at traditional supercomputing centers. It is therefore critical to evaluate the performance of HPC applications in today’s cloud environments to understand the tradeoffs inherent in migrating to the cloud. This work represents the most comprehensive evaluation to date comparing conventional HPC platforms to Amazon EC2, using real applications representative of the workload at a typical supercomputing center. Overall results indicate that EC2 is six times slower than a typical mid-range Linux cluster, and twenty times slower than a modern HPC system. The interconnect on the EC2 cloud platform severely limits performance and causes significant variability.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/CloudCom.2010.69
CloudCom
Keywords
Field
DocType
typical mid-range linux cluster,ec2 cloud platform,cloud computing,high performance computing applications,amazon web services cloud,conventional hpc platform,modern hpc system,scientific computing community,traditional supercomputing center,hpc application,amazon ec2,real applications representative,performance analysis,computer aided manufacturing,hpc,cost effectiveness,mpi,web service,performance,stress,web services,linux cluster,distributed computing,benchmark testing,scientific computing,bandwidth
Computer-aided manufacturing,Supercomputer,Computer science,Web application,Web service,Computer cluster,Operating system,Cloud testing,Benchmark (computing),Distributed computing,Cloud computing
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
238
10.81
14
Authors
8
Search Limit
100238
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Keith R. Jackson148135.62
lavanya ramakrishnan271056.18
Krishna Muriki328714.71
Shane Canon437825.45
Shreyas Cholia528418.67
John Shalf62353211.77
Harvey J. Wasserman732926.82
Nicholas J. Wright840827.79