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In cloud computing systems, assigning a task to multiple servers and waiting for the earliest copy to finish is an effective method to combat the variability in response time of individual servers, and reduce latency. But adding redundancy…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Gauri Joshi , Emina Soljanin , Gregory Wornell

In recent years, cloud computing has been widely used. Cloud computing refers to the centralized computing resources, users through the access to the centralized resources to complete the calculation, the cloud computing center will return…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Yifan Zhang , Bo Liu , Yulu Gong , Jiaxin Huang , Jingyu Xu , Weixiang Wan

Cloud computing has become the backbone of the computing industry and offers subscription-based on-demand services. Through virtualization, which produces a virtual instance of a computer system running in an abstracted hardware layer, it…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Sakshi Chhabra , Ashutosh Kumar Singh

Cloud infrastructure supports the efficient operation of data pipelines regarding requirements like cost, speed, and resource utilization. We present an integrated view of optimization opportunities for cloud-based data pipelines by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Johannes Jablonski , Georg-Daniel Schwarz , Philip Heltweg , Dirk Riehle

Multi-cloud systems facilitate a cost-efficient and geographically-distributed deployment of microservice-based applications by temporary leasing virtual nodes with diverse pricing models. To preserve the cost-efficiency of multi-cloud…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Marco Zambianco , Silvio Cretti , Domenico Siracusa

Novel energy-aware cloud management methods dynamically reallocate computation across geographically distributed data centers to leverage regional electricity price and temperature differences. As a result, a managed VM may suffer…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Dražen Lučanin , Foued Jrad , Ivona Brandic , Achim Streit

In this paper, we study cache policies for cloud-based caching. Cloud-based caching uses cloud storage services such as Amazon S3 as a cache for data items that would have been recomputed otherwise. Cloud-based caching departs from…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Nicolas Le Scouarnec , Christoph Neumann , Gilles Straub

Building around the idea of a large scale server infrastructure with a potentially large number of tailored resources, which are capable of interacting to facilitate the deployment, adaptation, and support of services, cloud computing needs…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Kun Ma , Antoine Bagula , Olasupo Ajayi

Due to the recent wide use of computational resources in cloud computing, new resource provisioning challenges have been emerged. Resource provisioning techniques must keep total costs to a minimum while meeting the requirements of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Safiye Ghasemi , Mohammad Reza Meybodi , Mehdi Dehghan Takht Fooladi , Amir Masoud Rahmani

Network virtualization and programmability allow operators to deploy a wide range of services over a common physical infrastructure and elastically allocate cloud and network resources according to changing requirements. While the elastic…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Chang-Heng Wang , Jaime Llorca , Antonia M. Tulino , Tara Javidi

We consider a seller who offers services to a buyer with multi-unit demand. Prior to the realization of demand, the buyer receives a noisy signal of their future demand, and the seller can design contracts based on the reported value of…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-02-13 Dirk Bergemann , Michael C. Wang

Rapid growth and proliferation of cloud computing services around the world has increased the necessity and significance of improving the energy efficiency of could implementations. Virtual machines (VM) comprise the backend of most, if not…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-02-12 Sina Esfandiarpoor , Ali Pahlavan , Maziar Goudarzi

As foundation models grow in size, fine-tuning them becomes increasingly expensive. While GPU spot instances offer a low-cost alternative to on-demand resources, their volatile prices and availability make deadline-aware scheduling…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Linggao Kong , Yuedong Xu , Lei Jiao , Chuan Xu

Cloud storage is fast securing its role as a major repository for both consumers and business customers. Many companies now offer storage solutions, sometimes for free for limited amounts of capacity. We have surveyed the pricing plans of a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-07-26 Loretta Mastroeni , Maurizio Naldi

A novel cloud data center (DC) model is studied here with cognitive capabilities for real-time (or online) flow compared to the batch tasks. Here, a DC can determine the cost of using resources and an online user or the user with batch…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-07 Wenlong Ni , Yuhong Zhang , Wei Li

In order for a robot to perform a task, several algorithms need to be executed, sometimes, simultaneously. Algorithms can be run either on the robot itself or, upon request, be performed on cloud infrastructure. The term cloud…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Saeid Alirezazadeh , Luís A. Alexandre

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning (ML) approach that allows multiple clients to collaboratively train ML models without exchanging original training data, offering a solution that is particularly valuable in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Aditya Sinha , Zilinghan Li , Tingkai Liu , Volodymyr Kindratenko , Kibaek Kim , Ravi Madduri

We consider allocation problems that arise in the context of service allocation in Clouds. More specifically, we assume on the one part that each computing resource is associated to a capacity constraint, that can be chosen using Dynamic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-10-11 Olivier Beaumont , Philippe Duchon , Paul Renaud-Goud

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

IaaS clouds invest substantial capital in operating their data centers. Reducing the cost of resource provisioning, is their forever pursuing goal. Computing resource trading among multiple IaaS clouds provide a potential for IaaS clouds to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-12-10 Jian Zhao , Chuan Wu , Zongpeng Li