Using virtual machines as a resource provisioning mechanism offers multiple benefits, most recently exploited by “infrastructure-as-a-service” clouds, but also poses several...
Clouds are emerging as an important class of distributed computational resources and are quickly becoming an integral part of production computational infrastructures. An importan...
Hyunjoo Kim, Yaakoub El Khamra, Shantenu Jha, Mani...
—Cloud computing has emerged as a new technology that provides large amount of computing and data storage capacity to its users with a promise of increased scalability, high avai...
Nezih Yigitbasi, Alexandru Iosup, Dick H. J. Epema...
SciCloud is a project studying the scope of establishing private clouds at universities. With these clouds, researchers can efficiently use the already existing resources in solvin...
Eucalyptus, OpenNebula and Nimbus are three major open-source cloud-computing software platforms. The overall function of these systems is to manage the provisioning of virtual ma...