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We study the problem of scheduling delay-sensitive jobs over spot and on-demand cloud instances to minimize average cost while meeting an average delay constraint. Jobs arrive as a general stochastic process, and incur different costs based…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Neelkamal Bhuyan , Randeep Bhatia , Murali Kodialam , TV Lakshman

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

Premier cloud service providers (CSPs) offer two types of purchase options, namely on-demand and spot instances, with time-varying features in availability and price. Users like startups have to operate on a limited budget and similarly…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Xiaohu Wu , Han Yu , Giuliano Casale , Guanyu Gao

Cost optimization is a common goal of workflow schedulers operating in cloud computing environments. The use of spot instances is a potential means of achieving this goal, as they are offered by cloud providers at discounted prices compared…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Amanda Jayanetti , Saman Halgamuge , Rajkumar Buyya

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

AI batch jobs such as model training, inference pipelines, and data analytics require substantial GPU resources and often need to finish before a deadline. Spot instances offer 3-10x lower cost than on-demand instances, but their…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Zhifei Li , Tian Xia , Ziming Mao , Zihan Zhou , Ethan J. Jackson , Jamison Kerney , Zhanghao Wu , Pratik Mishra , Yi Xu , Yifan Qiao , Scott Shenker , Ion Stoica

Cloud computing providers are now offering their unused resources for leasing in the spot market, which has been considered the first step towards a full-fledged market economy for computational resources. Spot instances are virtual…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-10-28 William Voorsluys , Rajkumar Buyya

Scheduling Bag-of-Tasks (BoT) applications on the cloud can be more challenging than grid and cluster environ- ments. This is because a user may have a budgetary constraint or a deadline for executing the BoT application in order to keep…

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

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

Many businesses possess a small infrastructure that they can use for their computing tasks, but also often buy extra computing resources from clouds. Cloud vendors such as Amazon EC2 offer two types of purchase options: on-demand and spot…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Xiaohu Wu , Patrick Loiseau , Esa Hyytia

Cloud providers sell their idle capacity on markets through an auction-like mechanism to increase their return on investment. The instances sold in this way are called spot instances. In spite that spot instances are usually 90% cheaper…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-03-08 Chenhao Qu , Rodrigo N. Calheiros , Rajkumar Buyya

Cloud Computing is the latest blooming technology in the era of Computer Science and Information Technology domain. There is an enormous pool of data centres, which are termed as Clouds where the services and associated data are being…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-09-30 Nallakumar R. , Sruthi Priya K. S

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

Amazon EC2 provides two most popular pricing schemes--i) the {\em costly} on-demand instance where the job is guaranteed to be completed, and ii) the {\em cheap} spot instance where a job may be interrupted. We consider a user can select a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Yang Zhang , Arnob Ghosh , Vaneet Aggarwal

With the increasing prevalence of computationally intensive workflows in cloud environments, it has become crucial for cloud platforms to optimize energy consumption while ensuring the feasibility of user workflow schedules with respect to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Suvarthi Sarkar , Dhanesh V , Ketan Singh , Aryabartta Sahu

We introduce and study spatiotemporal online allocation with deadline constraints ($\mathsf{SOAD}$), a new online problem motivated by emerging challenges in sustainability and energy. In $\mathsf{SOAD}$, an online player completes a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Adam Lechowicz , Nicolas Christianson , Bo Sun , Noman Bashir , Mohammad Hajiesmaili , Adam Wierman , Prashant Shenoy

Cloud computing provides engineers or scientists a place to run complex computing tasks. Finding a workflow's deployment configuration in a cloud environment is not easy. Traditional workflow scheduling algorithms were based on some…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Jianfeng Chen , Tim Menzies

We propose throughput and cost optimal job scheduling algorithms in cloud computing platforms offering Infrastructure as a Service. We first consider online migration and propose job scheduling algorithms to minimize job migration and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Haritha K , Chandramani Singh

This paper considers a Markov decision model for profit maximization of a cloud computing service provider catering to customers submitting jobs with firm real-time random deadlines. Customers are charged on a per-job basis, receiving a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-27 José Niño-Mora

The rapid development of cloud-native architecture has promoted the widespread application of container technology, but the optimization problems in container scheduling and resource management still face many challenges. This paper…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Xiaoye Wang
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