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Seamlessly Enabling the Use of Cloud Resources in Workflows

Authors:
Michael Gerhards
Volker Sander
Adam Belloum

Keywords: cloud economics; dynamic resource allocation; cloud computing; cross-cloud workflows; on-demand computing model; service oriented architecture; workflow; workflow orchestration

Abstract:
The hosting of large on-premise computational resources is common practice. Cloud Computing offers a promising, alternative infrastructure for using scalable on-demand off-premise resources. However, outsourcing whole applications is not a cost optimal solution in some scenarios, because the already existing on-premise resources are not considered. A flexible integration of additional resources from the cloud to compensate a shortage of suitable on-premise resources is a tradeoff between costs and efficiency. This paper provides a light-weight approach that focuses on seamlessly enabling cloud resources for workflow-based applications without requiring installing a rather complex software stack. The approach is evaluated by running an example workflow.

Pages: 108 to 114

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: May 27, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4294

ISBN: 978-1-61208-271-4

Location: Valencia, Spain

Dates: from May 27, 2013 to June 1, 2013