A marketplace for cloud resources

Cloud computing is an emerging paradigm aimed to offer users pay-per-use computing resources, while leaving the burden of managing the computing infrastructure to the cloud provider. We present a new programming and pricing model that gives the cloud user the flexibility of trading execution speed and price on a per-job basis. We discuss the scheduling and resource management challenges for the cloud provider that arise in the implementation of this model. We argue that techniques from real-time and embedded software can be useful in this context. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.1 [Information Systems]: Models and Principles; D.2.6 [Software Engineering]: Programming Environments General Terms Design, Performance Keywords Cloud computing, IaaS, pricing models, large-scale scheduling, worst-case execution time

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: EMSOFT
• Authors: Thomas A. Henzinger, Anmol V. Singh, Vasu Singh, Thomas Wies, Damien Zufferey
• Keywords: Cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud Provider, EMSOFT 2010, Software Engineering