A survey of cloud resource management for complex engineering applications

Traditionally, complex engineering applications (CEAs), which consist of numerous components (software) and require a large amount of computing resources, usually run in dedicated clusters or high performance computing (HPC) centers. Nowadays, Cloud computing system with the ability of providing massive computing resources and customizable execution environment is becoming an attractive option for CEAs. As a new type on Cloud applications, CEA also brings the challenges of dealing with Cloud resources. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive survey of Cloud resource management research for CEAs. The survey puts forward two important questions: 1) what are the main challenges for CEAs to run in Clouds? and 2) what are the prior research topics addressing these challenges? We summarize and highlight the main challenges and prior research topics. Our work can be probably helpful to those scientists and engineers who are interested in running CEAs in Cloud environment.National Science Foundation of China [61232008, 61472151]; National 863 Hi-Tech Research and Development Program [2015AA01A203, 2014AA01A302]; Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2015TS067]; Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation [1408085MF126]SCI(E)EI中国科技核心期刊(ISTIC)中国科学引文数据库(CSCD)REVIEWwusong@hust.edu.cn3447-4611