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Chapter 5
Cloud-enabling geoscience
applications
Kai Liu, Qunying Huang, and Jizhe Xia
Chapter 4 introduced the generic steps for deploying a simple Web appli-
cation onto a cloud service such as Amazon EC2 and Windows Azure.
However, the procedure for deploying geoscience applications onto cloud
services is much more complicated. This chapter introduces the common
complexities of typical geoscience applications, demonstrates how to han-
dle these complexities when deploying geoscience applications onto cloud
services, and includes two practical examples.
5.1 COMMON COMPONENTS FOR
GEOSCIENCE APPLICATIONS
Deploying geoscience applications onto cloud ...