Cost-effective cloud HPC resource provisioning by building semi-elastic virtual clusters
Shuangcheng Niu, Jidong Zhai, Xiaosong Ma, Xiongchao Tang, Wenguang Chen · 2013
Recent studies have found cloud environments increasingly appealing for executing HPC applications, including tightly coupled parallel simulations. While public clouds offer elastic, on-demand resource provisioning and pay-as-you-go pricing, individual users setting up their on-demand virtual clusters may not be able to take full advantage of common cost-saving opportunities, such as reserved instances.