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Evaluation of messaging middleware for high-performance cloud computing

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Cloud computing is posing several challenges, such as security, fault tolerance, access interface singularity, and network constraints, both in terms of latency and bandwidth. In this scenario, the performance of communications depends both on the network fabric and its efficient support in virtualized environments, which ultimately determines the overall system performance. To solve the current network constraints in cloud services, their providers are deploying high-speed networks, such as 10 Gigabit Ethernet. This paper presents an evaluation of high-performance computing message-passing middleware on a cloud computing infrastructure, Amazon EC2 cluster compute instances, equipped with 10 Gigabit Ethernet. The analysis of the experimental results, confronted with a similar testbed, has shown the significant impact that virtualized environments still have on communication performance, which demands more efficient communication middleware support to get over the current cloud network limitations.

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This work was funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain under Project TIN2010-16735, by the Galician Government (Consolidation of Competitive Research Groups, Xunta de Galicia ref. 2010/6), by an FPU Grant AP2010-4348 and by an Amazon Web Services (AWS) LLC research grant.

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    Roberto R. Expósito, Guillermo L. Taboada, Sabela Ramos, Juan Touriño & Ramón Doallo

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Expósito, R.R., Taboada, G.L., Ramos, S. et al. Evaluation of messaging middleware for high-performance cloud computing. Pers Ubiquit Comput 17, 1709–1719 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-012-0605-3

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