Comparison of a cost-effective virtual cloud cluster with an existing campus cluster

McGough, A.S.; Forshaw, M.; Gerrard, C.; Wheaterc, S.; Allen, B.; Robinson, P.

doi:10.1016/j.future.2014.07.002

Comparison of a cost-effective virtual cloud cluster with an existing campus cluster

McGough, A.S.; Forshaw, M.; Gerrard, C.; Wheaterc, S.; Allen, B.; Robinson, P.

Authors

A.S. McGough

M. Forshaw

C. Gerrard

S. Wheaterc

B. Allen

P. Robinson

Abstract

The Cloud provides impartial access to computer services on a pay-per-use basis, a fact that has encouraged many researchers to adopt the Cloud for the processing of large computational jobs and data storage. It has been used in the past for single research endeavours or as a mechanism for coping with excessive load on conventional computational resources (clusters). In this paper we investigate, through the use of simulation, the applicability of running an entire computer cluster on the Cloud. We investigate a number of policy decisions which can be applied to such a virtual cluster to reduce the running cost and the effect these policies have on the users of the cluster. We go further to compare the cost of running the same workload both on the Cloud and on an existing campus cluster of non-dedicated resources.

Citation

McGough, A., Forshaw, M., Gerrard, C., Wheaterc, S., Allen, B., & Robinson, P. (2014). Comparison of a cost-effective virtual cloud cluster with an existing campus cluster. Future Generation Computer Systems, 41, 65-78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2014.07.002

Journal Article Type	Article
Publication Date	Dec 1, 2014
Deposit Date	Dec 24, 2014
Publicly Available Date	Jan 12, 2015
Journal	Future Generation Computer Systems
Print ISSN	0167-739X
Publisher	Elsevier
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	41
Pages	65-78
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2014.07.002
Keywords	Cloud, Economic, Simulation.

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NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Future Generation Computer Systems. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Future Generation Computer Systems, 41, December 2014, 10.1016/j.future.2014.07.002.