Cloudy with a spot of opportunity: Analysis of spot-priced VMs for practical job scheduling

2014 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing in Emerging Markets, CCEM 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages

  Kushwaha, Vedsar ^a   Simmhan, Yogesh ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; WEB SERVICES;

AMAZON WEB SERVICES; CLOUD PROVIDERS; COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURES; ELASTIC COMPUTING; EMERGING MARKETS; JOB SCHEDULING; PUBLIC CLOUDS; SIMULATION STUDIES;

COSTS;

EID: 84923253558     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CCEM.2014.7015488     Document Type: Conference Paper

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