A broker-based framework for multi-cloud workflows

Authors:
Foued Jrad;Jie Tao;Achim Streit
Affiliations:
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany;Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany;Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2013 international workshop on Multi-cloud applications and federated clouds
Year:
2013

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Abstract

Computational science workflows have been successfully run on traditional HPC systems like clusters and Grids for many years. Today, users are interested to execute their workflow applications in the Cloud to exploit the economic and technical benefits of this new emerging technology. The deployment and management of workflows over the current existing heterogeneous and not yet interoperable Cloud providers, however, is still a challenging task for the workflow developers. In this paper, we present a broker-based framework for running workflows in a multi-Cloud environment. The framework allows an automatic selection of the target Clouds, a uniform access to the Clouds, and workflow data management with respect to user Service Level Agreement (SLA) requirements. Following a simulation approach, we evaluated the framework with a real scientific workflow application in different deployment scenarios. The results show that our framework offers benefits to users by executing workflows with the expected performance and service quality at lowest cost.