The Magellan Final Report on Cloud Computing
The Magellan Final Report on Cloud Computing
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麦哲伦云计算最终报告
DOI：
10.2172/1076794
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发表时间：
2013
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通讯作者：
S. Coghlan
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作者：
S. Coghlan
Magellan 是由美国能源部 (DOE) 高级科学计算研究办公室 (ASCR) 资助的一个项目，其目标是调查云计算在满足能源部科学办公室 (SC) 的计算需求方面的潜在作用，特别是与满足中程计算和未来数据密集型计算工作负载的需求有关。形成了一系列研究问题，从性能、可用性和成本等方面探讨云计算的各个方面。为了解决这些问题，阿贡领导计算设施 (ALCF) 和国家能源研究科学计算中心 (NERSC) 部署了分布式测试床基础设施。该测试台的设计足够灵活，能够探索各种计算模型和硬件设计点，以了解对各种科学应用的影响。在项目期间，测试平台也成为应用科学家的宝贵资源。麦哲伦项目使用了 MG-RAST（宏基因组分析服务器）、联合基因组研究所、相对论重离子对撞机的 STAR 实验和激光干涉引力波天文台 (LIGO) 等不同项目的应用程序在云中进行基准测试，但项目团队还能够利用麦哲伦云资源完成重要的生产科学。
The goal of Magellan, a project funded through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR), was to investigate the potential role of cloud computing in addressing the computing needs for the DOE Office of Science (SC), particularly related to serving the needs of mid- range computing and future data-intensive computing workloads. A set of research questions was formed to probe various aspects of cloud computing from performance, usability, and cost. To address these questions, a distributed testbed infrastructure was deployed at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC). The testbed was designed to be flexible and capable enough to explore a variety of computing models and hardware design points in order to understand the impact for various scientific applications. During the project, the testbed also served as a valuable resource to application scientists. Applications from a diverse set of projects such as MG-RAST (a metagenomics analysis server), the Joint Genome Institute, the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, and the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO), were used by the Magellan project for benchmarking within the cloud, but the project teams were also able to accomplish important production science utilizing the Magellan cloud resources.