Title
10 Years Later: Cloud Computing is Closing the Performance Gap
Abstract
ABSTRACTCan cloud computing infrastructures provide HPC-competitive performance for scientific applications broadly? Despite prolific related literature, this question remains open. Answers are crucial for designing future systems and democratizing high-performance computing. We present a multi-level approach to investigate the performance gap between HPC and cloud computing, isolating different variables that contribute to this gap. Our experiments are divided into (i) hardware and system microbenchmarks and (ii) user application proxies. The results show that today's high-end cloud computing can deliver HPC-competitive performance not only for computationally intensive applications, but also for memory- and communication-intensive applications -- at least at modest scales -- thanks to the high-speed memory systems and interconnects and dedicated batch scheduling now available on some cloud platforms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1145/3447545.3451183
ICPE
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
15
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Giulia Guidi111.71
Marquita Ellis232.76
Aydin Buluc3105767.49
Katherine A. Yelick43494407.23
David Culler5234682674.49