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This paper evaluates the behavior of the Microsoft Azure G5 cloud instance type over multiple Data Centers. The purpose is to identify if there are major differences between them and to help the users choose the best option for their needs. Our results show that there are differences in the network level for the same instance type in different locations and inside the same location at different times. The network performance causes interference in the applications level, as we could verify in our results.
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This research received funding from the EU H2020 Programme and from MCTI/RNP-Brazil under the HPC4E project, grant agreement no. 689772. Experiments presented in this paper were carried out using the Grid’5000 testbed, supported by a scientific interest group hosted by Inria and including CNRS, RENATER and several Universities as well as other organizations (see https://www.grid5000.fr). Additional funding was provided by CAPES and Microsoft.
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Roloff, E. et al. (2017). Performance Evaluation of Multiple Cloud Data Centers Allocations for HPC. In: Barrios Hernández, C., Gitler, I., Klapp, J. (eds) High Performance Computing. CARLA 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 697. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57972-6_2
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