Improving Scientific Workflow with Cloud Offloading

TL;DR

Emerald is a system that enhances scientific workflows by automatically offloading computation-intensive tasks to the cloud, significantly improving performance and reducing execution time.

Contribution

This paper introduces Emerald, a novel system that simplifies cloud offloading for scientific workflows, enabling automatic performance improvements.

Findings

Reduces execution time by up to 55%

Provides easy-to-use APIs for developers

Effectively offloads computation to the cloud

Abstract

Scientific workflow is a powerful tool to streamline and organize computational steps of scientific application. This paper presents Emerald, a system that adds sophisticated cloud offloading capabilities to scientific workflows. Emerald automatically offloads computation intensive steps of scientific workflow to the cloud in order to enhance workflow performance. Emerald provides easy-to-use APIs to help developers build cloud offloading enabled scientific workflows. Evaluation showed that Emerald can effectively reduce up to 55% of execution time for scientific applications.