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2011
13 years 3 months ago
The SCADS Director: Scaling a Distributed Storage System Under Stringent Performance Requirements
Elasticity of cloud computing environments provides an economic incentive for automatic resource allocation of stateful systems running in the cloud. However, these systems have t...
Beth Trushkowsky, Peter Bodík, Armando Fox,...
CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 6 months ago
On the Benefit of Virtualization: Strategies for Flexible Server Allocation
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, ...
IOR
2008
105views more  IOR 2008»
13 years 11 months ago
The Stochastic Knapsack Revisited: Switch-Over Policies and Dynamic Pricing
The stochastic knapsack has been used as a model in wide ranging applications from dynamic resource allocation to admission control in telecommunication. In recent years, a variat...
Grace Y. Lin, Yingdong Lu, David D. Yao
SIGECOM
2003
ACM
110views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2003»
14 years 4 months ago
Virtual worlds: fast and strategyproof auctions for dynamic resource allocation
We consider the problem of designing fast and strategyproof exchanges for dynamic resource allocation problems in distributed systems. The exchange is implemented as a sequence of...
Chaki Ng, David C. Parkes, Margo I. Seltzer
NOMS
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Utility-based placement of dynamic Web applications with fairness goals
Abstract—We study the problem of dynamic resource allocation to clustered Web applications. We extend application server middleware with the ability to automatically decide the s...
David Carrera, Malgorzata Steinder, Ian Whalley, J...