XtremWeb: A Generic Global Computing System
CCGRID '01 Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
BOINC: A System for Public-Resource Computing and Storage
GRID '04 Proceedings of the 5th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing
Resource Management for Rapid Application Turnaround on Enterprise Desktop Grids
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Heuristic scheduling for bag-of-tasks applications in combination with QoS in the computational grid
Future Generation Computer Systems - Special issue: Advanced grid technologies
A batch scheduler with high level components
CCGRID '05 Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid'05) - Volume 2 - Volume 02
QBETS: queue bounds estimation from time series
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Grid'5000: A Large Scale And Highly Reconfigurable Experimental Grid Testbed
International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications
Automatic grid assembly by promoting collaboration in peer-to-peer grids
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Future Generation Computer Systems
The performance of bags-of-tasks in large-scale distributed systems
HPDC '08 Proceedings of the 17th international symposium on High performance distributed computing
Amazon S3 for science grids: a viable solution?
DADC '08 Proceedings of the 2008 international workshop on Data-aware distributed computing
Multi-state grid resource availability characterization
GRID '07 Proceedings of the 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing
Fault-aware scheduling for Bag-of-Tasks applications on Desktop Grids
GRID '06 Proceedings of the 7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing
Modeling Job Lifespan Delays in Volunteer Computing Projects
CCGRID '09 Proceedings of the 2009 9th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
Cost-benefit analysis of Cloud Computing versus desktop grids
IPDPS '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel&Distributed Processing
GridBot: execution of bags of tasks in multiple grids
Proceedings of the Conference on High Performance Computing Networking, Storage and Analysis
The Failure Trace Archive: Enabling Comparative Analysis of Failures in Diverse Distributed Systems
CCGRID '10 Proceedings of the 2010 10th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing
Elastic Site: Using Clouds to Elastically Extend Site Resources
CCGRID '10 Proceedings of the 2010 10th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing
Improving MapReduce performance in heterogeneous environments
OSDI'08 Proceedings of the 8th USENIX conference on Operating systems design and implementation
Reining in the outliers in map-reduce clusters using Mantri
OSDI'10 Proceedings of the 9th USENIX conference on Operating systems design and implementation
Bag-of-Tasks Scheduling under Budget Constraints
CLOUDCOM '10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Second International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science
On the use of clouds for grid resource provisioning
Future Generation Computer Systems
PDP '11 Proceedings of the 2011 19th International Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing
Improving Utilization of Infrastructure Clouds
CCGRID '11 Proceedings of the 2011 11th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing
Correlated Resource Models of Internet End Hosts
ICDCS '11 Proceedings of the 2011 31st International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Auto-scaling to minimize cost and meet application deadlines in cloud workflows
Proceedings of 2011 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis
The Aneka platform and QoS-driven resource provisioning for elastic applications on hybrid Clouds
Future Generation Computer Systems
Stochastic Tail-Phase Optimization for Bag-of-Tasks Execution in Clouds
UCC '12 Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/ACM Fifth International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing
Searching for Translated Plagiarism with the Help of Desktop Grids
Journal of Grid Computing
Low latency energy efficient communications in global-scale cloud computing systems
Proceedings of the 2013 workshop on Energy efficient high performance parallel and distributed computing
Efficient extension of gLite VOs with BOINC based desktop grids
Future Generation Computer Systems
SpeQuloS: a QoS service for hybrid and elastic computing infrastructures
Cluster Computing
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Exploitation of Best Effort Distributed Computing Infrastructures (BE-DCIs) allow operators to maximize the utilization of the infrastructures, and users to access the unused resources at relatively low cost. Because providers do not guarantee that the computing resources remain available to the user during the entire execution of their applications, they offer a diminished Quality of Service (QoS) compared to traditional infrastructures. Profiling the execution of Bag-of-Tasks (BoT) applications on several kinds of BE-DCIs demonstrates that their task completion rate drops near the end of the execution. In this paper, we present the SpeQuloS framework which enhances the QoS of BoT applications executed on BE-DCIs by reducing the execution time, improving its stability, and reporting to users a predicted completion time. SpeQuloS monitors the execution of the BoT on the BE-DCIs, and dynamically supplies fast and reliable Cloud resources when the critical part of the BoT is executed. We present the design and development of the service and several strategies to decide when and how Cloud resources should be provisioned. Performance evaluation using simulations shows that SpeQuloS fulfill its objectives. It speeds-up the execution of BoTs, in the best cases by a factor greater than 2, while offloading less than 2.5% of the workload to the Cloud. We report on preliminary results after a complex deployment as part of the European Desktop Grid Infrastructure.