The use of user specific virtual machines (VMs) in Grid and Cloud computing reduces the administration overhead associated with manually installing required software for every user...
Roland Schwarzkopf, Matthias Schmidt, Niels Fallen...
Abstract. The trend towards cloud and utility computing infrastructures raises challenges not only for application development, but also for management: diverse resources, changing...
Abstract. The commercial exploitation of the emerging Grid and Cloud markets needs SLAs to sell computing run times. Job traces show that users have a limited ability to estimate t...
— Scientific computing often requires the availability of a massive number of computers for performing large scale experiments. Traditionally, these needs have been addressed by ...
Cloud computing systems fundamentally provide access to large pools of data and computational resources through a variety of interfaces similar in spirit to existing grid and HPC ...
Daniel Nurmi, Richard Wolski, Chris Grzegorczyk, G...