Cloud Computing for Science and Engineering
by Ian Foster, Dennis B. Gannon
Publisher: The MIT Press 2017
Number of pages: 392
Description:
The book introduces the working scientist, engineer or student to cloud computing. It surveys the technology that underpins the cloud, new approaches to technical problems enabled by the cloud, and the concepts required to integrate cloud services into scientific work. It covers managing data in the cloud, and how to program these services; computing in the cloud, from deploying single virtual machines or containers to supporting basic interactive science experiments to gathering clusters of machines to do data analytics; using the cloud as a platform for automating analysis procedures, machine learning, and analyzing streaming data; building your own cloud with open source software; and cloud security.
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