Cloud computing provides computing resources as a service over a network. As rapid
application of this emerging technology in real world, it becomes more and more important …

The study of parallel and distributed applications and platforms, whether in the cluster, grid,
peer-to-peer, volunteer, or cloud computing domain, often mandates empirical evaluation of …

Simulation techniques have become a powerful tool for deciding the best starting conditions
on pay-as-you-go scenarios. This is the case of public cloud infrastructures, where a given …

This article summarizes our recent work and developments on SMPI, a flexible simulator of
MPI applications. In this tool, we took a particular care to ensure our simulator could be used …

Cloud computing is a paradigm which allows the use of outsourced infrastructures in a “pay-
as-you-go” basis, thanks to which scalable and customizable infrastructures can be built on …

Cloud computing is sharing of computer hardware and software resources over the internet
so that anyone who is connected to the internet can access it as a service in a seamless …

Accurate analysis of HPC storage system designs is contingent on the use of I/O workloads
that are truly representative of expected use. However, I/O analyses are generally bound to …

Nowadays, cloud computing is an internet-based platform that renders various computing
services like hardware, software and other computer related services remotely. As the …

Simulation is a popular approach for predicting the performance of MPI applications for
platforms that are not at one's disposal. It is also a way to teach the principles of parallel …

With the increase of the scale and intensity of the parallel I/O workloads generated by those
scientific applications running on high performance computing facilities, understanding the …