—Cloud Computing, born in the e-business context, and GRID computing, originated in the e-science context, are two different but similar paradigms for managing large sets of dist...
Recent industry trends towards reducing the costs of ownership in large data centers emphasize the need for database system techniques for both automatic performance tuning and ef...
Jin Chen, Gokul Soundararajan, Madalin Mihailescu,...
Abstract--Virtualization technology facilitates a dynamic, demanddriven allocation and migration of servers. This paper studies how the flexibility offered by network virtualizatio...
Dushyant Arora, Anja Feldmann, Gregor Schaffrath, ...
Challenging usage policy issues can arise within virtual organizations (VOs) that integrate participants and resources spanning multiple physical institutions. Participants may wi...
—We present a practical, market-based solution to the resource provisioning problem in a set of heterogeneous resource clusters. We focus on provisioning rather than immediate sc...
Murray Stokely, Jim Winget, E. Keyes, C. Grimes, B...