Computation and Storage in the Cloud

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Experiments and Evaluations

In this chapter, we evaluate the proposed benchmarking approaches and storage strategies by means of experiments on our SwinCloud environment [60]. In Section 7.1, we introduce SwinCloud, which is a private cloud in Swinburne University of Technology. In Sections 7.2 and 7.3, we conduct general random experiments to evaluate the overall performance of our benchmarking approaches and storage strategies presented in Chapters 5 and 6 respectively. In Section 7.4, we describe a specific case study of the real-world pulsar searching application which is the motivating example described in Section 3.1, in which our benchmarking approaches and storage strategies are illustrated.

7.1 Experiment Environment

SwinCloud is a ...