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Load balancing is vital for the efficient and long-term operation of cloud data centers. With virtualization, post (reactive) migration of virtual machines after allocation is the traditional way for load balancing and consolidation.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Wenhong Tian , Minxian Xu , Guangyao Zhou , Kui Wu , Chengzhong Xu , Rajkumar Buyya

Burst-Buffering is a promising storage solution that introduces an intermediate highthroughput storage buffer layer to mitigate the I/O bottleneck problem that the current High-Performance Computing (HPC) platforms suffer. The existing…

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This paper investigates the energy-aware virtual machine (VM) allocation problems in clouds along characteristics: multiple resources, fixed interval time and non-preemption of virtual machines. Many previous works have been proposed to use…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-25 Nguyen Quang-Hung , Nam Thoai

Companies are rushing to deliver their services and solutions through the cloud. The scheduling process is very critical in reducing delays. Scheduling also has a role in accessing resources without excessive waiting time. All this in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-28 M A El-Dosuky , Gamal H Eladl

Spot instances are virtual machines offered at 60-90% lower cost that can be reclaimed at any time, with only a short warning period. Spot instances have already been used to significantly reduce the cost of processing workloads in the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Malte Brodmann , Nikolas Ioannou , Bernard Metzler , Jonas Pfefferle , Ana Klimovic

It is cost-efficient for a tenant with a limited budget to establish a virtual MapReduce cluster by renting multiple virtual private servers (VPSs) from a VPS provider. To provide an appropriate scheduling scheme for this type of computing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Ming-Chang Lee , Jia-Chun Lin , Ramin Yahyapour

Cloud Computing is a paradigm of both parallel processing and distributed computing. It offers computing facilities as a utility service in pay as par use manner. Virtualization, self service provisioning, elasticity and pay per use are the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Syed Arshad Ali , Mansaf Alam

The utilization of cloud environments to deploy scientific workflow applications is an emerging trend in scientific community. In this area, the main issue is the scheduling of workflows, which is known as an NP-complete problem. Apart from…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-17 J. E. Ndamlabin Mboula , V. C. Kamla , M. H. Hilman , C. Tayou Djamegni

With the increasing and elastic demand for cloud resources, finding an optimal task scheduling mechanism become a challenge for cloud service providers. Due to the time-varying nature of resource demands in length and processing over time…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Seyedakbar Mostafavi , Vesal Hakami

Cloud-based computing infrastructure provides an efficient means to support real-time processing workloads, e.g., virtualized base station processing, and collaborative video conferencing. This paper addresses resource allocation for a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-03-08 Yuhuan Du , Gustavo de Veciana

On-demand resource provisioning in cloud computing provides tailor-made resource packages (typically in the form of VMs) to meet users' demands. Public clouds nowadays provide more and more elaborated types of VMs, but have yet to offer the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Xiaoxi Zhang , Chuan Wu , Zongpeng Li , Francis C. M. Lau

Cloud computing is a new archetype that provides dynamic computing services to cloud users through the support of datacenters that employs the services of datacenter brokers which discover resources and assign them Virtually. The focus of…

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Computation-as-a-Service (CaaS) offerings have gained traction in the last few years due to their effectiveness in balancing between the scalability of Software-as-a-Service and the customisation possibilities of Infrastructure-as-a-Service…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Joseph Doyle , Vasileios Giotsas , Mohammad Ashraful Anam , Yiannis Andreopoulos

Virtual machine (VM) placement is very important for cloud platforms. While techniques, such as live virtual machine migration, are very useful to balance the load in the data centers, they are expensive operations. In this position paper,…

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The emergence of cloud computing based on virtualization technologies brings huge opportunities to host virtual resource at low cost without the need of owning any infrastructure. Virtualization technologies enable users to acquire,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Minxian Xu , Wenhong Tian , Rajkumar Buyya

Allocating resources in a distributed environment is a fundamental challenge. In this paper, we analyze the scheduling and placement of virtual machines (VMs) in the cloud platform of SAP, the world's largest enterprise resource planning…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Arno Uhlig , Iris Braun , Matthias Wählisch

In cloud computing resource management plays a significant role in data centres and it is directly dependent on the application workload. Various services such as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Smruti Rekha Swain , Ashutosh Kumar Singh , Chung Nan Lee

Cloud users aim to minimize cost while maximizing performance by selecting the most suitable instance types for their workloads. To reduce expenses, spot instances have been widely adopted due to their steep discounts compared to on-demand…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Taeyoon Kim , Kyumin Kim , Enrique Molina-Giménez , Pedro García-López , Kyungyong Lee

Cloud service platforms increasingly rely on elastic infrastructures to support dynamic workloads. Spot instances provide discounted computing resources but introduce uncertainty due to dynamic pricing, resource availability, and…

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