Readings in Cloud Research: Dynamic Load-Balanced Multicast for Data-Intensive Applications on Cloud

Data-Intense parallel applications on cloud need to deploy large data sets from the cloud's storage facility to all compute nodes as fast as possible.  Dynamic Load-Balanced Multicast for Data-Intensive Applications on Cloud  by Chiba  et.al, proposes two high performance multicast algorithm focused on Amazon's EC/S. These algorithms makes it possible to efficiently transfer large amounts of data stored in Amazon S3 to multiple Amazon EC2 nodes. The algorithms are evaluated and shown to be scalable and consistently achieving high throughput.