Cloud computing carries the promise of providing powerful ls and abstractions that could transform the way IT services are delivered today. In order to establish the readiness of ...
Although there is tremendous interest in designing improved networks for data centers, very little is known about the network-level traffic characteristics of current data centers...
Abstract— This paper describes Service Clouds, a distributed infrastructure designed to facilitate rapid prototyping and deployment of services that enhance communication perform...
Philip K. McKinley, Farshad A. Samimi, Jonathan K....
Virtual Machine (VM) fork is a new cloud computing abstraction that instantaneously clones a VM into multiple replicas running on different hosts. All replicas share the same init...
We describe the design and implementation of a high performance cloud that we have used to archive, analyze and mine large distributed data sets. By a cloud, we mean an infrastruc...