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Chapter 12
How to test the readiness
of cloud services
Chaowei Yang, Min Sun, Jizhe Xia, Jing Li, Kai
Liu, Qunying Huang, and Zhipeng Gui
This chapter utilizes three geoscience applications to demonstrate how
to test the readiness of cloud services including NASA Nebula, Windows
Azure, and Amazon Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2). The test results from
cloud-hosted applications are compared to those using a traditional cluster.
12.1 INTRODUCTION
The ourishing of cloud services provides different options to support
geoscience applications. The decision to migrate applications onto cloud
services is partially based on the readiness of the servic