publication . Article . Other literature type . Preprint . 2012

A high performance scientific cloud computing environment for materials simulations

Jorissen, Kevin; Vila, Fernando D.; Rehr, John J.;

Open Access

Published: 01 Sep 2012 Journal: Computer Physics Communications, volume 183, pages 1,911-1,919 (issn: 0010-4655,

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Summary

Abstract

a b s t r a c t We describe the development of a scientific cloud computing (SCC) platform that offers high performance computation capability. The platform consists of a scientific virtual machine prototype containing a UNIX operating system and several materials science codes, together with essential interface tools (an SCC toolset) that offers functionality comparable to local compute clusters. In particular, our SCC toolset provides automatic creation of virtual clusters for parallel computing, including tools for execution and monitoring performance, as well as efficient I/O utilities that enable seamless connections to and from the cloud. Our SCC platform ...

doi: 10.1016/j.cpc.2012.04.010

Subjects

free text keywords: Hardware and Architecture, General Physics and Astronomy, Computation, Operating system, computer.software_genre, computer, Supercomputer, Unix operating system, Cloud computing, business.industry, business, Computer science, Virtual machine, Java, computer.programming_language, Cluster (physics), Physics - Computational Physics, Condensed Matter - Materials Science, Computer Science - Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science

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