In this paper we examine the feasibility of running message passing applications across clouds. Our on-going Unibus project aims to provide a flexible approach to provisioning and ...
The recent emergence of clouds is making the vision of utility computing realizable, i.e. computing resources and services can be delivered, utilized, and paid for as utilities su...
Rapid growth of the demand for computational power by scientific, business and web-applications has led to the creation of large-scale data centers consuming enormous amounts of el...
— We discuss the problem of resource provisioning for database management systems operating on top of an Infrastructure-As-A-Service (IaaS) cloud. To solve this problem, we descr...
Patching is a critical security service that keeps computer systems up to date and defends against security threats. Existing patching systems all require running systems. With th...