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Exploiting non-dedicated resources for cloud computing

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Exploiting non-dedicated resources for cloud computing
—Popular web services and applications such as Google Apps, DropBox, and Go.Pc introduce a wasteful imbalance of processing resources. Each host operated by a provider serves hundreds to thousands of users, treating their PCs as thin clients. Tapping the processing, storage and networking capacities of these non-dedicated resources promises to reduce the size of required hardware basis significantly. Consequently, it presents a noteworthy opportunity for service providers and operators of cloud computing infrastructures. We investigate how a mixture of dedicated (and so highly available) hosts and non-dedicated (and so highly volatile) hosts can be used to provision a processing tier of a large-scale web service. We discuss an operational model which guarantees long-term availability despite of host churn, and study multiple aspects necessary to implement it. These include: ranking of non-dedicated hosts according to their long-term availability behavior, short-term availability mod...
Artur Andrzejak, Derrick Kondo, David P. Anderson
Added 29 Jan 2011
Updated 29 Jan 2011
Type Journal
Year 2010
Where NOMS
Authors Artur Andrzejak, Derrick Kondo, David P. Anderson
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