Improving utilization of infrastructure clouds

Proceedings - 11th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing, CCGrid 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 205-214

  Marshall, Paul ^a   Keahey, Kate ^b,c   Freeman, Tim ^b,c  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud Computing; High Throughput Computing; Infrastructure as a Service

Indexed keywords

CLOUD PROVIDERS; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; HIGH PRICE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT COMPUTING; INFRASTRUCTURE-AS-A-SERVICE; JOB MANAGEMENT SYSTEM; ON-DEMAND ALLOCATIONS; OVERALL COSTS; OVERHEAD COSTS; SHARED INFRASTRUCTURE; VIRTUAL MACHINES; WORK-FLOWS;

CLOUDS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GRID COMPUTING; MANAGEMENT;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 79961143765     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CCGrid.2011.56     Document Type: Conference Paper

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