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Makespan minimization in tasks scheduling of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud is an NP-hard problem. A number of techniques had been used in the past to optimize the makespan time of scheduled tasks in IaaS cloud, which is…

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The surge in large language models (LLMs) has fundamentally reshaped the landscape of GPU usage patterns, creating an urgent need for more efficient management strategies. While cloud providers employ spot instances to reduce costs for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Jiaang Duan , Shenglin Xu , Shiyou Qian , Dingyu Yang , Kangjin Wang , Chenzhi Liao , Yinghao Yu , Qin Hua , Hanwen Hu , Qi Wang , Wenchao Wu , Dongqing Bao , Tianyu Lu , Jian Cao , Guangtao Xue , Guodong Yang , Liping Zhang , Gang Chen

Infrastructure-as-a-Service providers are offering their unused resources in the form of variable-priced virtual machines (VMs), known as "spot instances", at prices significantly lower than their standard fixed-priced resources. To lease…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-11-03 William Voorsluys , Saurabh Kumar Garg , Rajkumar Buyya

Cloud computing paradigms have emerged as a major facility to store and process the massive data produced by various business units, public organizations, Internet-of-Things, and cyber-physical systems. To meet users' performance…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Chongzhou Fang , Han Wang , Najmeh Nazari , Behnam Omidi , Avesta Sasan , Khaled N. Khasawneh , Setareh Rafatirad , Houman Homayoun

Organizations around the world schedule jobs (programs) regularly to perform various tasks dictated by their end users. With the major movement towards using a cloud computing infrastructure, our organization follows a hybrid approach with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Sunandita Patra , Mehtab Pathan , Mahmoud Mahfouz , Parisa Zehtabi , Wided Ouaja , Daniele Magazzeni , Manuela Veloso

Distributed computing, such as cloud computing, provides promising platforms to execute multiple workflows. Workflow scheduling plays an important role in multi-workflow execution with multi-objective requirements. Although there exist many…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Feng Li , Wen Jun , Tan , Wentong , Cai

Cloud computing is an increasingly popular computing paradigm, now proving a necessity for utility computing services. Each provider offers a unique service portfolio with a range of resource configurations. Resource provisioning for cloud…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Mohamed Abu Sharkh , Manar Jammal , Abdallah Shami , Abdelkader Ouda

Motivated by emerging big streaming data processing paradigms (e.g., Twitter Storm, Streaming MapReduce), we investigate the problem of scheduling graphs over a large cluster of servers. Each graph is a job, where nodes represent compute…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-02-23 Javad Ghaderi , Sanjay Shakkottai , R Srikant

Optimising the execution of Bag-of-Tasks (BoT) applications on the cloud is a hard problem due to the trade- offs between performance and monetary cost. The problem can be further complicated when multiple BoT applications need to be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Long Thai , Blesson Varghese , Adam Barker

We consider the problem of scheduling in constrained queueing networks with a view to minimizing packet delay. Modern communication systems are becoming increasingly complex, and are required to handle multiple types of traffic with widely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Mohammani Zaki , Avi Mohan , Aditya Gopalan , Shie Mannor

We study the problem of executing an application represented by a precedence task graph on a parallel machine composed of standard computing cores and accelerators. Contrary to most existing approaches, we distinguish the allocation and the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Marcos Amaris , Giorgio Lucarelli , Clément Mommessin , Denis Trystram

It is significant to apply load-balancing strategy to improve the performance and reliability of resource in data centers. One of the challenging scheduling problems in Cloud data centers is to take the allocation and migration of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-08-27 Minxian Xu , Guangchun Luo , Ling Tian , Aiguo Chen , Yaqiu Jiang , Guozhong Li , Wenhong Tian

Clusters of computers have emerged as mainstream parallel and distributed platforms for high-performance, high-throughput and high-availability computing. To enable effective resource management on clusters, numerous cluster managements…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jahanzeb Sherwani , Nosheen Ali , Nausheen Lotia , Zahra Hayat , Rajkumar Buyya

With the rapid expansion of cloud computing applications, optimizing resource allocation has become crucial for improving system performance and cost efficiency. This paper proposes an intelligent resource allocation algorithm that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Yuqing Wang , Xiao Yang

Optimizing schedules in real-world settings often requires considering workload constraints, specially for human resources, to ensure regulatory compliance, impose rest periods, or level the workload over the working horizon. This paper…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Tanguy Terrien , Cyrille Briand

The ever-increasing gap between compute and I/O performance in HPC platforms, together with the development of novel NVMe storage devices (NVRAM), led to the emergence of the burst buffer concept - an intermediate persistent storage layer…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Jan Kopanski , Krzysztof Rzadca

Cloud computing offers a variable-cost payment scheme that allows cloud customers to specify the price they are willing to pay for renting spot instances to run their applications at much lower costs than fixed payment schemes, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Abdullah Alourani , Ajay D. Kshemkalyani

With the proliferation of mobile applications, Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) has been proposed to help mobile devices save energy and improve computation performance. To further improve the quality of service (QoS) of MCC, cloud servers can…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-11-30 Tianchu Zhao , Sheng Zhou , Xueying Guo , Yun Zhao , Zhisheng Niu

Clouds inherit CPU scheduling policies of operating systems. These policies enforce fairness while leveraging best-effort mechanisms to enhance responsiveness of all schedulable entities, irrespective of their service level objectives…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Esmail Asyabi , Azer Bestavros , Renato Mancuso , Richard West , Erfan Sharafzadeh

Cloud computing customers often submit repeating jobs and computation pipelines on \emph{approximately} regular schedules, with arrival and running times that exhibit variance. This pattern, typical of training tasks in machine learning,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Moshe Babaioff , Ronny Lempel , Brendan Lucier , Ishai Menache , Aleksandrs Slivkins , Sam Chiu-Wai Wong