An Investigation on Applications of Cloud Computing in Scientific Computing [chapter]

Huiying Chen, Feng Wang, Hui Deng
2011 Communications in Computer and Information Science  
In recent years, "cloud computing" is one of the most popular terminologies in computer society. Many IT providers and enterprises are eager to move closer to "cloud" in order to solve the current bottlenecks encountered in various fields such as scientific computing. In common, scientific computing needs a huge number of computers available to perform large-scale experiments. These should not only require enormous money to construct, but also need a lot of follow-up time and manpower to
more » ... n and operate. Cloud computing provides a new computing pattern for scientific computing, which could make scientists dynamically access to computing infrastructure on demand, such as computing, storage resources and applications. The emergence of this new computing pattern has brought new opportunities and challenges for computational science. This thesis starts with the introduction of cloud computing, and then probes into the application prospect and results of cloud computing in scientific computing.
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-24022-5_33 fatcat:nraagq2o6ndu3pq432ngyxyy6q