Reducing costs of spot instances via checkpointing in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

Proceedings - 2010 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing, CLOUD 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 236-243

  Yi, Sangho ^a   Kondo, Derrick ^a   Andrzejak, Artur ^b  

^a INRIA RHÔNE ALPES   (France)

^b ZUSE INSTITUTE BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHECK POINTING; CHECKPOINTING SCHEMES; DEMAND FLUCTUATIONS; JOB COMPLETION; MONETARY COSTS; REDUCING COSTS; RESOURCE COSTS; RESOURCE PROVISIONING; TASK COMPLETION TIME; TRACE-BASED SIMULATION;

GRID COMPUTING; RELIABILITY;

COST REDUCTION;

EID: 77957960970     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLOUD.2010.35     Document Type: Conference Paper

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