Summary: The Cost of Doing Science on the Cloud: The Montage Example
Ewa Deelman1
, Gurmeet Singh1
, Miron Livny2
, Bruce Berriman3
, John Good4
1
USC Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey, CA
2
University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI
3
Infrared Processing and Analysis Center & Michelson Science Center, California Institute of
Technology, Pasadena, CA
4
Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Abstract
Utility grids such as the Amazon EC2 cloud and
Amazon S3 offer computational and storage resources
that can be used on-demand for a fee by compute and
data-intensive applications. The cost of running an

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

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences