Abstract. The performance of multi-tier systems is known to be significantly degraded by workloads that place bursty service demands on system resources. Burstiness can cause queu...
Giuliano Casale, Amir Kalbasi, Diwakar Krishnamurt...
A crucial goal for future Grid systems is to strive towards user-centric service provisioning. A way to achieve this is through the use of economics-based resource management. Cur...
This paper reports the development of D-RAJE (Distributed Resource-Aware Java Environment), a Java-based middleware platform that makes it possible to model and to monitor resourc...
In highly interactive multimedia applications startup latency is significant, and may negatively impact performance and Quality of Service (QoS). To avoid this, our approach is t...
Matthias Friedrich, Silvia Hollfelder, Karl Aberer
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing offers new possibilities to scientific communities. One of the most significant is the ability to elastically provision and relin...