In Cloud, Can Scientific Communities Benefit from the Economies of Scale?

The basic idea behind cloud computing is that resource providers offer elastic resources to end users. In this paper, we intend to answer one key question to the success of cloud computing: in cloud, can small-to-medium scale scientific communities benefit from the economies of scale? Our research contributions are three-fold: first, we propose an innovative public cloud usage model for small-to-medium scale scientific communities to utilize elastic resources on a public cloud site while maintaining their flexible system controls, i.e., create, activate, suspend, resume, deactivate, and destroy their high-level management entities--service management layers without knowing the details of management. Second, we design and implement an innovative system--DawningCloud, at the core of which are lightweight service management layers running on top of a common management service framework. The common management service framework of DawningCloud not only facilitates building lightweight servi...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: CORR
• Authors: Lei Wang, Jianfeng Zhan, Weisong Shi, Yi Liang
• Keywords: CORR 2010, Education, Management, Public Clouds, Scientific Communities