Synthetic seismograms generated by solving the seismic wave equation using numerical methods are being widely used in seismology. For fully three-dimensional seismic structure models, the generation of these synthetic seismograms may require large amount of computing resources. Conventional high-performance computer clusters may not provide a cost-effective solution to this type of applications...

Microsoft Windows Azure Cloud offers scalable resources to its customers. The price for renting the resources is linear, i.e. the customer pays exactly double price for double resources. However, not always all offered resources of virtual machine instances are most suitable for the customers. Some problems are memory demanding, others are compute intensive or even cache intensive. The same amo...

e see cloud computing offerings today that are suitable to host enterprise ar-chitectures. But while these offerings provide clear benefits to corporations by providing capabilities complementary to what they have, the fact that they can help to elastically scale enterprise architectures should not be understood to also mean that simply scaling in this way will meet twenty-first-century computi...