Summary: Data Sharing Options for Scientific Workflows on
Amazon EC2
Gideon Juve, Ewa Deelman, Karan Vahi, Gaurang Mehta
USC Information Sciences Institute
{gideon,deelman,vahi,gmehta}@isi.edu
Bruce Berriman
NASA Exoplanet Science Institute, Infrared
Processing and Analysis Center, Caltech
gbb@ipac.caltech.edu
Benjamin P. Berman
USC Epigenome Center
bberman@usc.edu
Phil Maechling
Southern California Earthquake Center
maechlin@usc.edu
Abstract--Efficient data management is a key component
in achieving good performance for scientific workflows in
distributed environments. Workflow applications typically
communicate data between tasks using files. When tasks
are distributed, these files are either transferred from one

Source: Agrawal, Gagan - Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Ohio State University
Deelman, Ewa - Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California
Kielmann, Thilo - Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences