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About the flexible Migration of Workflow Tasks to Clouds

Authors:
Michael Gerhards
Volker Sander
Adam Belloum

Keywords: Cloud Computing; Cloud Service Broker; Grid Computing; Workflow; Workflow Orchestration

Abstract:
An increasing number of applications target their executions on specific hardware like general purpose Graphics Processing Units. Some Cloud Computing providers offer this specific hardware so that organizations can rent such resources. However, outsourcing the whole application to the Cloud causes avoidable costs if only some parts of the application benefit from the specific expensive hardware. A partial execution of applications in the Cloud is a tradeoff between costs and efficiency. This paper addresses the demand for a consistent framework that allows for a mixture of on- and off-premise calculations by migrating only specific parts to a Cloud. It uses the concept of workflows to present how individual workflow tasks can be migrated to the Cloud whereas the remaining tasks are executed on-premise.

Pages: 82 to 87

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: July 22, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4294

ISBN: 978-1-61208-216-5

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from July 22, 2012 to July 27, 2012