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Journal of Cloud Computing

Advances, Systems and Applications

Table 3 Running times for a test job on different cloud infrastructures and instance types

From: An elastic virtual infrastructure for research applications (ELVIRA)

Cloud

Type

Cores

Threads

Time(s)

Cost($/h)

Cost per job ($)

StACC

m1.large

1

1

12734

N/A

N/A

 

m1.xlarge

2

2

7549

N/A

N/A

 

c1.xlarge

4

4

4310

N/A

N/A

EC2

c1.xlarge

8

8

3602

0.58

0.58

 

cc2.8xlarge

16

16

1303

2.40

0.87

Local

 

32

14

1863

N/A

 
  1. Experiments were run to determine the optimum number of threads and best results are reported. StACC instances are running on Dell PowerEdge R610 nodes with 2xQuadCore Intel Xeon E5504 2GHz and 16GB RAM. The local machine is a dual Opteron™ 6272 2.1GHz. Costs are EC2 Linux US East on-demand prices as of 2nd June 2013, prices per job are for pure running-time, excluding instance creation and configuration overheads.
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