The Magellan Final Report on Cloud Computing

Coghlan, Susan; Yelick, Katherine

doi:10.2172/1076794

Title: The Magellan Final Report on Cloud Computing

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The goal of Magellan, a project funded through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR), was to investigate the potential role of cloud computing in addressing the computing needs for the DOE Office of Science (SC), particularly related to serving the needs of mid- range computing and future data-intensive computing workloads. A set of research questions was formed to probe various aspects of cloud computing from performance, usability, and cost. To address these questions, a distributed testbed infrastructure was deployed at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC). The testbed was designed to be flexible and capable enough to explore a variety of computing models and hardware design points in order to understand the impact for various scientific applications. During the project, the testbed also served as a valuable resource to application scientists. Applications from a diverse set of projects such as MG-RAST (a metagenomics analysis server), the Joint Genome Institute, the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, and the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO), were used by the Magellan project for benchmarking within the cloud, but the project teams were also ablemore »« less

Authors:: Coghlan, Susan; Yelick, Katherine

Publication Date:: 2011-12-21

Research Org.:: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: National Energy Research Scientific Computing Division

OSTI Identifier:: 1076794

Report Number(s):: LBNL-5376E

DOE Contract Number:: DE-AC02-05CH11231

Resource Type:: Technical Report

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING; Cloud Computing Magellan

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