—For many organizations, one attractive use of cloud resources can be through what is referred to as cloud bursting or the hybrid cloud. These refer to scenarios where an organiz...
Delivering continuous services in information infrastructures is a major challenge. For system or network administrators, redundancy allocation is one of the best strategies to en...
This paper presents lottery scheduling, a novel randomized resource allocation mechanism. Lottery scheduling provides efficient, responsive control over the relative execution rat...
An ad hoc grid is a spontaneous formation of cooperating heterogenous computing nodes which attempts to provide computing resources on demand to every participant. In this paper, ...
—The 64-bit OS provides ample memory address space that is beneficial for applications using a large amount of data. This paper proposes using a cluster as a memory resource for...