ExoApp: Performance Evaluation of Data-Intensive Applications on ExoGENI

ExoGENI is a new GENI-federated Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) framework. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of data-intensive applications on ExoGENI's resources. To simplify experiments, we design an automatic provisioning system called ExoApp. This paper focuses on MapReduce-based applications. Users can easily deploy applications in ExoGENI using ExoApp, without having to manually configure cluster runtime environments. We then conduct a series of experiments using real-world data sets and standard benchmarks through ExoApp. Our result shows that ExoGENI demonstrates similar resource quality when hosting data-intensive applications and its Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) model maintains stable network performance. We finally identify the pros and cons of the ExoGENI's NaaS model in supporting data-intensive applications.