A brief review of the Internet history reveals the fact that the Internet evolved after the
formation of primarily independent networks. Similarly, interconnected clouds, also called …

High performance computing (HPC) clouds are becoming an alternative to on-premise
clusters for executing scientific applications and business analytics services. Most research …

The amount of computing resources required by current and future data-intensive
applications is expected to increase dramatically, creating high demands for cloud …

Cloud computing represents an appealing opportunity for cost-effective deployment of HPC
workloads on the best-fitting hardware. However, although cloud and on-premise HPC …

Cloud providers offer a variety of execution platforms in form of bare-metal, VM, and
containers. However, due to the pros and cons of each execution platform, choosing the …

Emerging applications, from big science to the Internet of Things, increasingly involve
dynamic and data-driven end-to-end workflows with large and often heterogeneous …

Abstract Service-oriented architecture (SOA), workflow, the Semantic Web, and Grid
computing are key enabling information technologies in the development of increasingly …

Nowadays, high-performance computing (HPC) clusters are increasingly popular. Large
volumes of job logs recording many years of operation traces have been accumulated. In the …

Background The development of digital imaging technology is creating extraordinary levels
of accuracy that provide support for improved reliability in different aspects of the image …

Cloud computing is emerging as a viable platform for scientific exploration. Elastic and on-
demand access to resources (and other services), the abstraction of “unlimited” resources …