Abstract

Cloud computing with its on-demand access to resources has emerged as a tool used by researchers from a wide range of domains to run computer-based experiments. In this paper we introduce a flexible experiment management API, written in Python that simplifies and formalizes the execution of scientific experiments on cloud infrastructures. We describe the features and functionality of PRECIP (Pegasus Repeatable Experiments for the Cloud in Python), and how PRECIP can be used to set up experiments on academic clouds such as OpenStack Eucalyptus, Nimbus, and commercial clouds such as Amazon EC2.

Date

2013

Authors

Sepideh Azarnoosh, Mats Rynge, Gideon Juve, Ewa Deelman, Michal Niec, Maciej Malawski, Rafael Ferreira Da Silva

Conference

2013 IEEE 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science

Volume

2

Pages

19-26

Publisher

IEEE