Reliable provisioning of spot instances for compute-intensive applications

Proceedings - International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, AINA

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 542-549

  Voorsluys, William ^a   Buyya, Rajkumar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

cloud computing; fault tolerance; scheduling; spot market

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION EXECUTION; CHECK POINTING; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; MARKET ECONOMIES; PRICE VARIATION; QOS CONSTRAINTS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION STRATEGIES; RESOURCE PROVISIONING; RUNTIMES; SPOT MARKET; TASK DUPLICATION; TRACE DRIVEN SIMULATION; VIRTUAL MACHINES;

CLOUD COMPUTING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECONOMICS; FAULT TOLERANCE; SCHEDULING;

COSTS;

EID: 84860710994     PISSN: 1550445X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AINA.2012.106     Document Type: Conference Paper

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