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User-Centric Performance Analysis of Market-Based Cluster Batch Schedulers
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On-Line Scheduling on Uniform Multiprocessors
RTSS '01 Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium
From remote media immersion to Distributed Immersive Performance
ETP '03 Proceedings of the 2003 ACM SIGMM workshop on Experiential telepresence
The utility business model and the future of computing services
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Commodity cluster-based parallel processing of hyperspectral imagery
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Evaluating the cost-benefit of using cloud computing to extend the capacity of clusters
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A resource allocation approach for supporting time-critical applications in grid environments
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Elastic Site: Using Clouds to Elastically Extend Site Resources
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Resource provisioning with budget constraints for adaptive applications in cloud environments
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Towards dynamically adaptive weather analysis and forecasting in LEAD
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An efficient cloud storage model for cloud computing environment
GPC'12 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Advances in Grid and Pervasive Computing
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We consider the problem of managing a hybrid computing infrastructure whose processing elements are comprised of in-house dedicated machines, virtual machines acquired on-demand from a cloud computing provider through short-term reservation contracts, and virtual machines made available by the remote peers of a best-effort peer-to-peer (P2P) grid. Each of these resources has different cost basis and associated quality of service guarantees. The applications that run in this hybrid infrastructure are characterized by a utility function: the utility gained with the completion of an application depends on the time taken to execute it. We take a business-driven approach to manage this infrastructure, aiming at maximizing the profit yielded, that is, the utility produced as a result of the applications that are run minus the cost of the computing resources that are used to run them. We propose a heuristic to be used by a contract planner agent that establishes the contracts with the cloud computing provider to balance the cost of running an application and the utility that is obtained with its execution, with the goal of producing a high overall profit. Our analytical results show that the simple heuristic proposed achieves very high relative efficiency in the use of the hybrid infrastructure. We also demonstrate that the ability to estimate the grid behaviour is an important condition for making contracts that allow such relative efficiency values to be achieved. On the other hand, our simulation results with realistic error predictions show only a modest improvement in the profit achieved by the simple heuristic proposed, when compared to a heuristic that does not consider the grid when planning contracts, but uses it, and another that is completely oblivious to the existence of the grid. This calls for the development of more accurate predictors for the availability of P2P grids, and more elaborated heuristics that can better deal with the several sources of non-determinism present in this hybrid infrastructure.