Dynamic resource allocation for spot markets in clouds
Hot-ICE'11 Proceedings of the 11th USENIX conference on Hot topics in management of internet, cloud, and enterprise networks and services
NPC'11 Proceedings of the 8th IFIP international conference on Network and parallel computing
Provisioning spot market cloud resources to create cost-effective virtual clusters
ICA3PP'11 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Algorithms and architectures for parallel processing - Volume Part I
SpotMPI: a framework for auction-based HPC computing using amazon spot instances
ICA3PP'11 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Algorithms and architectures for parallel processing - Volume Part II
The Aneka platform and QoS-driven resource provisioning for elastic applications on hybrid Clouds
Future Generation Computer Systems
Cutting MapReduce cost with spot market
HotCloud'11 Proceedings of the 3rd USENIX conference on Hot topics in cloud computing
The Impact of User Rationality in Federated Clouds
CCGRID '12 Proceedings of the 2012 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (ccgrid 2012)
The pricing model of cloud computing services
Proceedings of the 14th Annual International Conference on Electronic Commerce
Cost-Aware and SLO-Fulfilling Software as a Service
Journal of Grid Computing
Impact of variable priced cloud resources on scientific workflow scheduling
Euro-Par'12 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Parallel Processing
Characterizing spot price dynamics in public cloud environments
Future Generation Computer Systems
A reliability model for cloud computing for high performance computing applications
Euro-Par'12 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Parallel processing workshops
Scheduling strategies for optimal service deployment across multiple clouds
Future Generation Computer Systems
Decision model for provisioning virtual resources in Amazon EC2
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Network and Service Management
Cost-effective cloud HPC resource provisioning by building semi-elastic virtual clusters
SC '13 Proceedings of the International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis
Banking on decoupling: budget-driven sustainability for HPC applications on auction-based clouds
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
Deconstructing Amazon EC2 Spot Instance Pricing
ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation
Online checkpointing with improved worst-case guarantees
ICALP'13 Proceedings of the 40th international conference on Automata, Languages, and Programming - Volume Part I
A QoS and profit aware cloud confederation model for IaaS service providers
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication
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Recently introduced spot instances in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) offer lower resource costs in exchange for reduced reliability; these instances can be revoked abruptly due to price and demand fluctuations. Mechanisms and tools that deal with the cost-reliability trade-offs under this schema are of great value for users seeking to lessen their costs while maintaining high reliability. We study how one such a mechanism, namely check pointing, can be used to minimize the cost and volatility of resource provisioning. Based on the real price history of EC2 spot instances, we compare several adaptive check pointing schemes in terms of monetary costs and improvement of job completion times. Trace-based simulations show that our approach can reduce significantly both price and the task completion times.