slides - Salsa Group - Indiana University

Conclusions
• Clouds offer attractive computing paradigms for
loosely coupled scientific computation applications.
• Infrastructure based models as well as the Map Reduce
based frameworks offered good parallel efficiencies
given sufficiently coarser grain task decompositions
• The higher level MapReduce paradigm offered a
simpler programming model
• Selecting an instance type which suits your application
can give significant time and monetary advantages.