Amazon S3 for Science Grids: a Viable Solution?
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Palankar, Mayur
Iamnitchi, Adriana
Ripeanu, Matei
Garfinkel, Simson
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Utility computing
Performance evaluation
Amazon Simple Storage Service
Performance evaluation
Amazon Simple Storage Service
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2008-06
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Amazon.com has introduced the Simple Storage Service (S3), a commodity-priced storage utility. S3 aims to provide storage as a low-cost, highly available service, with a simple 'pay-as-you-go' charging model. This article makes three contributions. First, we evaluate S3's ability to provide storage support to large-scale science projects from a cost, availability, and performance perspective. Second, we identify a set of additional functionalities that storage services targeting data-intensive science applications should support. Third, we propose unbundling the success metrics for storage utility performance as a solution, to reduce storage costs.
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International Workshop on Data-Aware Distributed Computing (DADC'08), June 23-27, 2008, Boston, MA
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Palankar, M., Iamnitchi, A., Ripeanu, M., and Garfinkel, S. "Amazon S3 for Science Grids: a Viable Solution?", International Workshop on Data-Aware Distributed Computing (DADC'08), June 23-27, 2008, Boston, MA
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.