%T Economics of Cloud Computing: a Statistical Genetics Case Study
%A  Jeremy M. R. Martin,  Steven J. Barrett,  Simon J. Thornber,  Silviu\-Alin Bacanu,  Dale Dunlap,  Steve Weston
%E Peter H. Welch,  Herman Roebbers,  Jan F. Broenink,  Frederick R. M. Barnes,  Carl G. Ritson,  Adam T. Sampson,  G. S. Stiles,  Brian Vinter
%B Communicating Process Architectures 2009
%X We describe an experiment which aims to reduce significantly
   the costs
of running a particular large\-scale grid\-enabled
   application using
commercial cloud computing resources. We
   incorporate three tactics
into our experiment: improving the
   serial performance of each work
unit, seeking the most
   cost\-effective computation cycles, and making
use of an
   optimized resource manager and scheduler. The
   application
selected for this work is a genetics association
   analysis and is
representative of a common class of
   embarrassingly parallel problems.