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SaaS Clouds Supporting Biology
and Medici
ne
Philip Church, Andrzej Goscinski, Adam Wong, and Zahir Tari
CONTENTS
Summary .............................................................................................................. 238
11.1 Introduction ................................................................................................ 238
11.2 Delivering HPC on Clouds ....................................................................... 240
11.2.1 Supporting HPC Applications in the Cloud .............................. 241
11.2.2 Solutions Supporting Research on the Cloud ............................ 242
11.2.3 Conclusion ...................................................................................... 244
11.3 A Research Cloud Framework ................................................................. 245
11.3.1 Framework Scope ........................................................................... 246
11.3.1.1 Automation of HPC Application Deployment ............ 246
11.3.1.2 Automation of HPC Application Service
and Web Form Generation ............................................. 247
11.3.1.3 Storage of Application Deployment Information ....... 247
11.3.2 Using the Framework .................................................................... 248
11.4 Research Cloud Prototype ........................................................................ 249
11.4.1 Prototype Overview ...................................................................... 249
11.4.2 Amazon EC2: The Public IaaS Cloud Service Provider ........... 250
11.4.3 The HPCaaS Model: Providing an HPC Service ....................... 251
11.4.3.1 Providing an HPC Service Library for Amazon EC2 ... 251
11.4.3.2 Management and Application Access Scripts ............. 251
11.4.3.3 AMIs with Prebuilt HPC Applications ........................ 251
11.4.4 Uncinus: An Application Broker and HPCaaS Cloud Solution ... 252
11.4.4.1 Features of Uncinus ........................................................ 253
11.4.4.2 Accessing Uncinus .......................................................... 255
11.5 Case Studies ................................................................................................ 257
11.5.1 Cloud Deployment ......................................................................... 257
11.5.2 Workflow Execution ...................................................................... 258
11.6 Conclusion .................................................................................................. 263
References ............................................................................................................. 264
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