Scientific Computing in the Cloud with Google App Engine

Cloud Computing as a computing paradigm recently emerged to a topic of high research interest. It has become attractive alternative to traditional computing environments, especially for smaller research groups that can not afford expensive infrastructure. Most of the research regarding scientific computing in the cloud however focused on IaaS cloud providers. Google App Engine is a PaaS cloud framework dedicated to the development of scalable web applications. The focus of this thesis is to investigate App Engine’s capabilities in terms of scientific computing. Moreover algorithm properties that are well suited for execution on Google App Engine as well as potential problems and bottlenecks are identified.