At our university, we have a number of small-tomedium-size compute clusters and some technical simulations which could benefit from using several of these clusters simulaneously....
Systems software for clusters typically derives from a multiplicity of sources: the kernel itself, software associated with a particular distribution, site-specific purchased or o...
Ewing L. Lusk, Narayan Desai, Rick Bradshaw, Andre...
We claim that network services can be transparently added to existing unmodified applications running inside virtual machine environments. Examples of these network services inclu...
Abstract. Cloud computing providers have setup several data centers at different geographical locations over the Internet in order to optimally serve needs of their customers aroun...
Rajkumar Buyya, Rajiv Ranjan, Rodrigo N. Calheiros
We study stochastic models to mitigate the risk of poor Quality-of-Service (QoS) in computational markets. Consumers who purchase services expect both price and performance guaran...