Commercial cloud offerings, such as Amazon's EC2, let users allocate compute resources on demand, charging based on reserved time intervals. While this gives great flexibilit...
In this paper, we discuss some of the lessons that we have learned working with the Hadoop and Sector/Sphere systems. Both of these systems are cloud-based systems designed to sup...
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...