Cloud Computing with e-Science Applications

Preface

The interest in cloud computing in both industry and research domains is continuously increasing to address new challenges of data management, computational requirements, and flexibility based on needs of scientific communities, such as custom software environments and architectures. It provides cloud platforms in which users interact with applications remotely over the Internet, bringing several advantages for sharing data, for both applications and end users. Cloud computing provides everything: computing power, computing infrastructure, applications, business processes, storage, and interfaces, and can provide services wherever and whenever needed.

Cloud computing provides four essential characteristics: elasticity; scalability; dynamic ...