Cloud computing has the potential for tremendous benefits, but wide scale adoption has a range of challenges that must be met. We review these challenges and how they relate to sc...
Cloud computing has seen tremendous growth, particularly for commercial web applications. The on-demand, pay-as-you-go model creates a flexible and cost-effective means to access c...
Keith R. Jackson, Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Krishna Mu...
—The problem of finding efficient workload distribution techniques is becoming increasingly important today for heterogeneous distributed systems where the availability of comp...
Vladimir Shestak, Edwin K. P. Chong, Anthony A. Ma...
A fundamental challenge in Internet computing (IC) is to efficiently schedule computations having complex interjob dependencies, given the unpredictability of remote machines, in...
Robert Hall, Arnold L. Rosenberg, Arun Venkatarama...
Heterogeneity has been considered in scheduling, but without taking into account the temporal variation of completion times of the sub-tasks for a divisible, independent task. In ...