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...
Resource management constitutes an important infrastructural component of a computational grid environment. The aim of grid resource management is to efficiently schedule applicat...
Junwei Cao, Stephen A. Jarvis, Daniel P. Spooner, ...
Over the last 10–15 years, our industry has developed and deployed many large-scale Internet services, from e-commerce to social networking sites, all facing common challenges i...
Emre Kiciman, V. Benjamin Livshits, Madanlal Musuv...
Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...
—Grid computing aims to realize a high-performance computing environment, while increasing the usage efficiency of installed resources. This puts considerable constraints on the...
Marc De Leenheer, Chris Develder, Tim Stevens, Bar...