An early comparison of commercial and open-source cloud platforms for scientific environments

Authors:
Ivan Voras;Marin Orlić;Branko Mihaljević
Affiliations:
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia;Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia;Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Venue:
KES-AMSTA'12 Proceedings of the 6th KES international conference on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: technologies and applications
Year:
2012

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Abstract

Cloud computing promises efficient use of hardware resources through virtualization and elastic computing facilities. Various cloud computing solutions have emerged on the market from open-source communities and commercial vendors. In this paper we discuss criteria for feature comparison of private cloud platforms and compare several open-source and commercial products. We test performance of hypervisors used in these clouds with a set of benchmark suites containing tests for various aspects of the system. We discuss the results in the context of what is commonly described as a scientific workload. The described feature and performance differences can help make wiser platform choices.