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A Hybrid Grid/Cloud Distributed Platform: A Case Study

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The scene of the computational sciences has considerably changed during the last years. Today, new emerging Desktop grid and Cloud e-infrastructure have a considerable potential to be adopted and used in large scale to exploit thousands of CPUs power to run both scientific and commercial applications. This paper targets scientists and programmers who need to accelerate their scientific research by running their applications on distributed Grid/Cloud infrastructures. We present a hybrid Grid/Cloud platform used to deploy a phylogeny application called MetaPIGA. The aim is to combine the advantages of Grid and Cloud architectures in order to set up a robust, reliable and open platform. We propose two scenarios.

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  1. University of Geneva, Switzerland

    Mohamed Ben Belgacem

  2. National School of Computer Science (ENSI), Tunisia

    Haithem Hafsi

  3. hepia, University of Applied Sciences, Western Switzerland, Geneva, Switzerland

    Nabil Abdennadher

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul University of Science and Technology (SeoulTech), 139-743, Seoul, Korea

    James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Georgia, 30602-7404, Athens, GA, USA

    Hamid R. Arabnia

  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Sejong University, 143-747, Seoul, Korea

    Cheonshik Kim

  4. Department of Computer Science, Wayne State University, 48202, Detroit, MI, USA

    Weisong Shi

  5. School of Information Technology Engineering, Catholic University of Daegu, 712-702, Gyeongsan-si, Gyeongbuk, Korea

    Joon-Min Gil

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Ben Belgacem, M., Hafsi, H., Abdennadher, N. (2013). A Hybrid Grid/Cloud Distributed Platform: A Case Study. In: Park, J.J.(.H., Arabnia, H.R., Kim, C., Shi, W., Gil, JM. (eds) Grid and Pervasive Computing. GPC 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7861. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38027-3_17

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