Title
SLA enactment for large-scale healthcare workflows on multi-Cloud.
Abstract
Computing Clouds offer a new way of using IT facilities including the hardware, storage, applications and networks. The huge resource pool on the Cloud forms an appropriate platform for running applications with both computing and data intensity, like the DNA sequencing workflows. This paper studies the topic of running scientific workflows on multiple Clouds, with the DNA sequencing workflow as a driven application. We focus on the problem of matching the workflow functional and non-functional Service Level Agreement (SLA) requirements to the compute and storage services provisioned by underlying Clouds with different service price and quality. We designed an ontological model for a semantic description of the problem and developed a novel utility-based genetic matching algorithm for selecting the Cloud services with respect to the user requirements and the properties of the Clouds. We validated the approach by comparing the performance of the proposed algorithm with other matching algorithms in executing the DNA sequencing application on a realistic simulation platform. The results show the effectiveness of our approach in reducing the total costs and fulfilling the requested service quality even with large-scale service compositions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1016/j.future.2014.07.005
Future Generation Computer Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
DNA sequencing,Scientific workflow,Cloud computing,Match-making,Genetic algorithm
Service quality,Computer science,Service-level agreement,Provisioning,Workflow,User requirements document,Blossom algorithm,Database,Genetic algorithm,Cloud computing,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
43
C
0167-739X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
10
0.52
25
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Foued Jrad1715.29
Jie Tao291661.29
Ivona Brandic3554.01
Achim Streit41067109.13