Pricing for utility-driven resource management and allocation in clusters

International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 405-418

  Yeo, Chee Shin ^a   Buyya, Rajkumar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cluster computing; Market model; Resource management; Service pricing; Utility computing

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COSTS; DECISION MAKING; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

CLUSTER COMPUTING; COMPUTATIONAL ECONOMY; DYNAMIC PRICING FUNCTION; UTILITY COMPUTING;

RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

EID: 35549003145     PISSN: 10943420     EISSN: 17412846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094342007083776     Document Type: Article

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