Migration of multi-tier applications to infrastructure-as-a-service clouds: An investigation using kernel-based virtual machines

Proceedings - 2011 12th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing, Grid 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 137-144

  Lloyd, Wes ^a,b   Pallickara, Shrideep ^a   David, Olaf ^a,b   Lyon, Jim ^b   Arabi, Mazdak ^b   Rojas, Ken ^c  

^a Department of Computer Science   (United States)

^b Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

^c USDA NRCS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud Computing; Infrastructure as a Service; Kernel based virtual machines (KVM); provisioning variation; scalability; virtualization

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION COMPONENTS; CO-LOCATED; CPU RESOURCES; EROSION MODELS; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; INFRASTRUCTURE-AS-A-SERVICE; INPUT-OUTPUT; MEMORY REQUIREMENTS; MULTI-TIER APPLICATIONS; OPTIMAL SYSTEM THROUGHPUT; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; PHYSICAL NODES; PROVISIONING VARIATION; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

CLOUD COMPUTING; CLOUDS; OPTIMIZATION; SCALABILITY; VIRTUAL REALITY;

GRID COMPUTING;

EID: 83455229824     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/Grid.2011.26     Document Type: Conference Paper

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