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SIGOPS
2010
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Are clouds ready for large distributed applications?
Cloud computing carries the promise of providing powerful ls and abstractions that could transform the way IT services are delivered today. In order to establish the readiness of ...
Kunwadee Sripanidkulchai, Sambit Sahu, Yaoping Rua...
SIGOPS
2010
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A case for the accountable cloud
For many companies, clouds are becoming an interesting alternative to a dedicated IT infrastructure. However, cloud computing also carries certain risks for both the customer and ...
Andreas Haeberlen
SIGOPS
2010
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Cloud-TM: harnessing the cloud with distributed transactional memories
One of the main challenges to harness the potential of Cloud computing is the design of programming models that simplify the development of large-scale parallel applications and t...
Paolo Romano, Luís Rodrigues, Nuno Carvalho...
SG
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Sketch Based Volumetric Clouds
Like many natural phenomenon, clouds are often modeled using procedural methods, which may be difficult for an artist to control. In this paper, a freehand sketching system is prop...
Marc Stiver, Andrew Baker, Adam Runions, Faramarz ...
PVLDB
2010
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Runtime Measurements in the Cloud: Observing, Analyzing, and Reducing Variance
One of the main reasons why cloud computing has gained so much popularity is due to its ease of use and its ability to scale computing resources on demand. As a result, users can ...
Jörg Schad, Jens Dittrich, Jorge-Arnulfo Quia...
PROCEDIA
2010
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Composable cost estimation and monitoring for computational applications in cloud computing environments
With the offer from cloud computing providers, scientists have the opportunity to utilize pay-as-you-go resources together with their own and shared resources. However, scientist...
Hong Linh Truong, Schahram Dustdar
NOMS
2010
IEEE
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Online detection of utility cloud anomalies using metric distributions
—The online detection of anomalies is a vital element of operations in data centers and in utility clouds like Amazon EC2. Given ever-increasing data center sizes coupled with th...
Chengwei Wang, Vanish Talwar, Karsten Schwan, Part...
NGC
2010
Springer
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Cloud Computing: a Perspective Study
The Cloud computing emerges as a new computing paradigm which aims to provide reliable, customized and QoS guaranteed dynamic computing environments for end-users. In this paper, w...
Lizhe Wang, Gregor von Laszewski, Andrew J. Younge...
IEEECIT
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
Developing a Cloud Computing Charging Model for High-Performance Computing Resources
Abstract—This paper examines the economics of cloud computing charging from the perspective of a supercomputing resource provider offering its own resources. To evaluate the comp...
Matthew Woitaszek, Henry M. Tufo
CORR
2010
Springer
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An Approach to Ad hoc Cloud Computing
We consider how underused computing resources within an enterprise may be harnessed to improve utilization and create an elastic computing infrastructure. Most current cloud provi...
Graham N. C. Kirby, Alan Dearle, Angus Macdonald, ...