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Whenever a massive amount of computing ressources are needed, cloud compuing seams to provide those. Especialy smaller companies decide to offer their solutions in a Software-As-A-Service fashion using popular clouds like Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud to satisfy their computing needs.
In the database business, in-memory databases get more and more popular, because of the enormous amount of available main memory and their unbeliveable speeds.
epiccluster.org is a database related research project, which aims to create a whitebox performance simulation for in-memory database clusters in cloud computing environments.