FGCS
2010
13 years 4 months ago
2010
An increasing number of providers are offering utility computing services which require users to pay only when they use. Most of these providers currently charge users for metere...
CORR
2010
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
2010
Springer
In recent years, extensive research has been conducted in the area of Service Level Agreement (SLA) for utility computing systems. An SLA is a formal contract used to guarantee th...
HPDC
2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
2010
IEEE
Cloud computing offers new approaches for scientific computing that leverage the major commercial hardware and software investment in this area. Closely coupled applications are s...
EUROPAR
2007
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
2007
Springer
Utility computing is a service provisioning model which will provide adaptive, flexible and simple access to computing resources, enabling a pay-per-use model for computing simila...
EAGC
2004
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2004
Springer
In this short paper we examine the integration of three emerging trends in Information Technology (Utility Computing, Grid Computing, and Web Services) into a new Computing paradig...
NETGAMES
2004
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2004
ACM
Large-scale multiplayer online games require considerable investment in hosting infrastructures. However, the difficulty of predicting the success of a new title makes investing ...
PPOPP
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2006
ACM
Utility computing is becoming a popular way of exploiting the potential of computational grids. In utility computing, users are provided with computational power in a transparent ...
ICAS
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2006
IEEE
— We target the problem of predicting resource usage in situations where the modeling data is scarce, non-stationary, or expensive to obtain. This scenario occurs frequently in c...
SIGCOMM
2009
ACM
14 years 7 days ago
2009
ACM
People increasingly generate content on their mobile devices and upload it to third-party services such as Facebook and Google Latitude for sharing and backup purposes. Although t...
WOSP
2010
ACM
14 years 18 days ago
2010
ACM
In this paper we develop, implement and evaluate an approach to quickly reassign resources for a virtualized utility computing platform. The approach provides this platform agilit...