1. Cloud Computing for the Automated Assignment of Broadband Rotational Spectra: Porting Autofit to Amazon EC2 A thesis by Aaron C. Olinger

2. Autofit: Fitting rotational Spectra [2] [1]: Phillips, M., Pruning Interstellar Space: Rotational Spectroscopy of Small Organic Molecules. Senior Thesis, New College of Florida (2013) [2]: N.A. Seifert, I.A. Finneran, C. Perez, D.P. Zaleski, J.L. Neill, A.L. Steber, R.D. Suenram, A. Lesarri, S.T. Shipman, B.H. Pate, “Autofit, an Automated Fitting Tool for Broadband Rotational Spectra, and Applications to 1-Hexanal”, Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy (2015) [1]

3. Distributed Computing Distributor Algorithm Server Client App

4. Cloud Computing vCPUECU Memory (GiB) Instance Storage (GB) Linux/Unix Usage General Purpose – Current Generation t2.micro1Variable1EBS Only$0.013 m3.medium133.751 x 4 SSD$0.070 m3.large26.57.51 x 32 SSD$0.140 m3.xlarge413152 x 40 SSD$0.280 m3.2xlarge829302 x 80 SSD$0.560 vCPUECU Memory (GiB) Instance Storage (GB) Linux/Unix Usage Compute Optimized – Current generation c4.large283.75EBS Only$0.116 c4.xlarge4167.5EBS Only$0.232 c4.8xlarge3613260EBS Only$1.856 c3.large273.752 x 16 SSD$0.105 c3.8xlarge32108602 x 320 SSD$1.680 Rates charged at the start of each hour [1] [1]: Amazon Web Services. Instance Types. http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/ (Accessed May 5, 2015)http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/

5. Creating the Distribution Network

6. Performance t2.micro vCPUECUMemory (GiB)Instance Storage (GB)Linux/Unix Usage General Purpose – Current Generation t2.micro1Variable1EBS Only$0.013 +750hr FREE per month

7. Performance c4.large vCPUECUMemory (GiB)Instance Storage (GB) Linux/Unix Usage Compute Optimized – Current generation c4.large283.75EBS Only$0.116

8. Cost Analysis vCPUECUMemory (GiB)Instance Storage (GB) Linux/Unix Usage Compute Optimized – Current generation c4.large283.75EBS Only$0.116

9. Future Work Run additional tests on larger data sets Complete benchmarking for more instance types Incorporate t2 instances into network

10. Acknowledgements Pate Group (UVa) Maria Phillips Ian Finneran Dr. Nathan Seifert (UVa) Dr. Steve Shipman Noah Anderson This thesis was made possible through the work of: