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 ...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
—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...
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...
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...
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, ...