Abstract
The Weather Research & Forecasting (WRF) Model is a high performance computing application used by many worldwide meteorological agencies. Its execution may benefit from the cloud computing paradigm and from public cloud infrastructures in particular, but only if the parameters are chosen wisely. An optimal infrastructure by means of cost can be instantiated for a given deadline, and an optimal infrastructure by means of performance can be instantiated for a given budget.
This research was supported by the following projects: ServiceCloud (MINECO TIN2012-31518), MEIGA-METNET PRECURSOR (AYA201129967C0502) and Desarrollo y evaluacin de tcnicas de prediccin por conjuntos de eventos meteorolgicos extremos (MINECO CGL2011-25327).
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Vázquez-Poletti, J.L., Santos-Muñoz, D., Llorente, I.M., Valero, F. (2015). A Cloud for Clouds: Weather Research and Forecasting on a Public Cloud Infrastructure. In: Helfert, M., Desprez, F., Ferguson, D., Leymann, F., Méndez Munoz, V. (eds) Cloud Computing and Services Sciences. CLOSER 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 512. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25414-2_1
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