4Adaptive Execution of Scientific Workflow Applications on Clouds

Rodrigo N. Calheiros, Kasim Henry, Hung Terence, Li Xiaorong, Lu Sifei, Wang Long, Palit Henry, Lee Gary, Ngo Tuan and Buyya Rajkumar

Contents

  1. Summary

  2. 4.1 Introduction

  3. 4.2 Workflow Applications

  4. 4.3 Requirements for Adaptive Execution of Workflows on Clouds

  5. 4.4 Case Study

  6. 4.5 System Architecture

  7. 4.6 Discussion and Lessons Learned

  8. 4.7 Related Work

  9. 4.8 Conclusions and Future Work

  10. References

Summary

Many e-science applications can be modeled as workflow applications. In this programming model, scientific applications are described as a set of tasks that have dependencies between them. Clouds are natural candidates for hosting such applications. This is because some of their core ...

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