A User Perspective Overview of The Top Infrastructure as a Service and High Performance Computing Cloud Service Providers

Aljamal, Rawan; El-Mousa, Ali; Jubair, Fahed

doi:10.1109/jeeit.2019.8717453

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“…cloud marketing yet can provide all compute services [12] for its strong Infrastructure as a service. It has a small marketing share, but the pricing model is considered lower than AWS [18].…”

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A Comparative Analysis of Public Cloud Platforms and Introduction of Multi-Cloud

Khot¹

2020

IJISRT

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Cloud computing is an accepted widely, emerging paradigm for its ‘pay as you go’ approach, massive economies of scale, and global in minutes concept. Over the years, different cloud providers have emerged with various services to meet the requirements of the end-user. Because of an increase in the diversity of services, the complexity increases. Customers cannot decide the optimal service to fulfill their requirements. This paper provides a comparative analysis of services of top public cloud providers namely, AWS, GCP, Oracle, and Microsoft Azure. Public cloud-provider strives to be efficient in every technological aspect, though some are better for certain tasks than others. This paper, as a solution, introduces the concept of Multi-Cloud computing, to leverage the benefits of the different cloud providers and to maximize their utility in single network architecture.

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A Comparative Analysis of Public Cloud Platforms and Introduction of Multi-Cloud

Khot¹

2020

IJISRT

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“… 40 AWS is one of the largest providers of cloud infrastructure, on par with Microsoft and Google. 10 …”

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“…40 AWS is one of the largest providers of cloud infrastructure, on par with Microsoft and Google. 10 First, we measured the GROMACS performance using established benchmarks 41 on a broad range of available instance types (with and without GPUs) and also across multiple instances. The simulation performance-to-instance price ratio allows optimizing for a minimal time-to-solution or minimal project costs.…”

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confidence: 99%

GROMACS in the Cloud: A Global Supercomputer to Speed Up Alchemical Drug Design

Kutzner¹,

Kniep

Cherian³

et al. 2022

J. Chem. Inf. Model.

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We assess costs and efficiency of state-of-the-art high-performance cloud computing and compare the results to traditional on-premises compute clusters. Our use case is atomistic simulations carried out with the GROMACS molecular dynamics (MD) toolkit with a particular focus on alchemical protein–ligand binding free energy calculations. We set up a compute cluster in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud that incorporates various different instances with Intel, AMD, and ARM CPUs, some with GPU acceleration. Using representative biomolecular simulation systems, we benchmark how GROMACS performs on individual instances and across multiple instances. Thereby we assess which instances deliver the highest performance and which are the most cost-efficient ones for our use case. We find that, in terms of total costs, including hardware, personnel, room, energy, and cooling, producing MD trajectories in the cloud can be about as cost-efficient as an on-premises cluster given that optimal cloud instances are chosen. Further, we find that high-throughput ligand-screening can be accelerated dramatically by using global cloud resources. For a ligand screening study consisting of 19 872 independent simulations or ∼200 μs of combined simulation trajectory, we made use of diverse hardware available in the cloud at the time of the study. The computations scaled-up to reach peak performance using more than 4 000 instances, 140 000 cores, and 3 000 GPUs simultaneously. Our simulation ensemble finished in about 2 days in the cloud, while weeks would be required to complete the task on a typical on-premises cluster consisting of several hundred nodes.

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“…Established providers are the compute centers of universities and research institutes, national supercomputing centers, and local clusters, each with particular advantages and disadvantages with respect to how easily resources can be accessed, how much and how quickly they are available, what the costs are, etc. During the last decade, cloud computing 9,10 has developed into a new, alternative option to obtain compute time for scientific applications.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…39 AWS is one of the largest providers of cloud infrastructure, on par with Microsoft and Google. 10 First, we measured the GROMACS performance using established benchmarks 40 on a broad range of available instance types (with and without GPUs), and also across multiple instances. The simulation performance to instance price ratio allows to optimize for a minimal time-to-solution or minimal project costs.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

GROMACS in the cloud: A global supercomputer to speed up alchemical drug design

Kutzner,

Kniep,

Cherian

et al. 2022

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A User Perspective Overview of The Top Infrastructure as a Service and High Performance Computing Cloud Service Providers

Cited by 18 publications

References 10 publications

A Comparative Analysis of Public Cloud Platforms and Introduction of Multi-Cloud

A Comparative Analysis of Public Cloud Platforms and Introduction of Multi-Cloud

GROMACS in the Cloud: A Global Supercomputer to Speed Up Alchemical Drug Design

GROMACS in the cloud: A global supercomputer to speed up alchemical drug design

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