Dedicated computing clusters are typically sized based on an expected average workload over a period of years, rather than on peak workloads, which might exist for relatively shor...
Michael Mattess, Christian Vecchiola, Rajkumar Buy...
The performance skeleton of an application is a short running program whose performance in any scenario reflects the performance of the application it represents. Specifically, th...
Service providers and their customers agree on certain quality of service guarantees through Service Level Agreements (SLA). An SLA contains one or more Service Level Objectives (S...
Yuan Chen, Subu Iyer, Xue Liu, Dejan S. Milojicic,...
In this paper we show how to reduce downtime of J2EE applications by rapidly and automatically recovering from transient and intermittent software failures, without requiring appl...
George Candea, Emre Kiciman, Shinichi Kawamoto, Ar...
This paper presents a data management solution which allows fast Virtual Machine (VM) instantiation and efficient run-time execution to support VMs as execution environments in Gri...
Ming Zhao 0002, Jian Zhang 0005, Renato J. O. Figu...