As Cloud computing is becoming a mainstream platform, it has also become important to understand the implications on customers’ applications or systems when deployed on Clouds. Therefore, simulation tools become a critical requirement that not only evaluate the performance of Clouds but also help in developing Cloud computing further. However, current simulation solutions for Clouds do not support many important application paradigms such as message-passing parallel applications. This limits the usage of these solutions to study the deployment of many scientific applications on Clouds. In this paper, after recognizing the needs and requirements of the Cloud research and development community, we propose a Cloud simulation environment with a scalable network and message-passing application model that allows accurate evaluation of scheduling and resource provisioning policies and thus helps in optimizing the performance of a Cloud infrastructure.

Item Type:	Refereed Article
Keywords:	cloud computing, simulation and modeling, message-passing applications
Research Division:	Information and Computing Sciences
Research Group:	Distributed computing and systems software
Research Field:	Distributed systems and algorithms
Objective Division:	Information and Communication Services
Objective Group:	Information systems, technologies and services
Objective Field:	Information systems, technologies and services not elsewhere classified
UTAS Author:	Garg, SK (Dr Saurabh Garg)
ID Code:	93829
Year Published:	2013
Web of Science® Times Cited:	8
Deposited By:	Information and Communication Technology
Deposited On:	2014-08-19
Last Modified:	2018-02-28
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