A comparative review of high-performance computing major cloud service providers

This paper reviews the top leading cloud providers, surveys their offering related to High Performance Computing (HPC). Four top cloud provider are selected, Microsoft Windows Azure, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Google Compute Engine and Oracle Cloud. Each one of them has its unique value proposition that enables it to survive in the market and make it a real competitor. A comparative analysis of the offerings and relative benefits of each are provided. This study is an introduction to our extensive work in the HPC field.