Cloud versus in-house cluster
Yan Zhai, Mingliang Liu, Jidong Zhai, Xiaosong Ma, Wenguang Chen · 2011
The emergence of cloud services brings new possibilities for constructing and using HPC platforms. However, while cloud services provide the flexibility and convenience of customized, pay-as-you-go parallel computing, multiple previous studies in the past three years have indicated that cloud-based clusters need a significant performance boost to become a competitive choice, especially for tightly coupled parallel applications.