Article Title Questions

Hello Training Series Member, Here is the next edition of the EzineArticles.com Article Writing and Marketing: Article Title Training Series. Ask yourself: "Does my article title entice the reader to ask a question?"E.g. "Why?," "How?," "Who?," "Where?," "When?," etc. After reading your article title, a question should appear in the reader's mind. Your article body is where you deliver the answer to that question. This is a powerful concept because...

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Cost-Benefit Analysis of Cloud Computing versus Desktop Grids page 4

GAMBAR 4.4 Completion times The volatility and heterogeneity in VC systems makes timely completion of task batches challenging. BOINC has a number of mechanisms for ensuring time completion. For example, project scientists can soft deadlines for tasks. When the soft deadline of a task approaches, the local client scheduler will increase the task’s priority relative to oth- ers. In addition, the server-side scheduler uses the deadline for determining...

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Cost-Benefit Analysis of Cloud Computing versus Desktop Grids page 3

• Completion. The unavailability or slowness of vol- unteer resources near the end of the computation can stretch task completion times. In the subsections below, we quantify the performance costs of each of these stages. 4.1 Execution: Cloud Equivalence We compute the cloud equivalence of a VC system. We answer the following question: how many nodes in a VC system are required to provide the same compute power in FLOPS of a small dedicated EC2 instance?...

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Cost-Benefit Analysis of Cloud Computing versus Desktop Grids page 2

and computation requirements, and current cloud comput- ing and storage pricing of Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) [4]. 2 Related Work In [23], the authors consider the Amazon data storage service S3 for scientific data-intensive applications. They conclude that monetary costs are high as the storage ser- vice groups availability, durability, and access performance together. By contrast, data-intensive applications often do not always need all...

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Article Title Questions

Cost-Benefit Analysisof Cloud Computing versus Desktop GridsDerrick Kondo1, Bahman Javadi1, Paul Malecot1, Franck Cappello1, David P. Anderson21INRIA, France,2UC Berkeley, USAContact author: derrick.kondo@inria.fr AbstractCloud Computing has taken commercial computing by storm. However, adoption of cloud computing platforms and services by the scientific community is in its infancy as the performance and monetary cost-benefits for scientific...

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What's your secret?

Maybe you have some uncommon way of dealing with an everyday problem, or you've developed a faster or cheaper way of doing something. Either way, you know something most other people don't know. In fact, as an expert in your niche, you probably have quite a few secrets, but you may not think of them like that. Strangely, in the case of article writing, the "secrets" you share are the ones that define you the most. Your secrets are the unique concepts...

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