Advances in Network Simulation
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CLADE '04 Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments
SSYM'04 Proceedings of the 13th conference on USENIX Security Symposium - Volume 13
Opening black boxes: using semantic information to combat virtual machine image sprawl
Proceedings of the fourth ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS international conference on Virtual execution environments
SimGrid: A Generic Framework for Large-Scale Distributed Experiments
UKSIM '08 Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Computer Modeling and Simulation
Hardware-less testing for RAS software
SYSTOR '09 Proceedings of SYSTOR 2009: The Israeli Experimental Systems Conference
DSF: a common platform for distributed systems research and development
Proceedings of the 10th ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Conference on Middleware
Always up-to-date: scalable offline patching of VM images in a compute cloud
Proceedings of the 26th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference
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Testing for correctness and reliability is a major challenge in the development and deployment of cloud computing platforms. Testing a cloud composed of hundreds to thousands of servers is often cost-prohibitive because of the extensive amount of hardware required. Simulation and emulation, i.e., traditional alternatives to hardware, are too abstract or too slow for testing production code in environments with many servers. We propose a testing approach that combines simulation and emulation in a cloud simulator that runs on a single processor yet enables testing of cloud management software as if the software were managing hundreds of servers and thousands of virtual machine instances. This approach alleviates a significant obstacle on the path to high-quality cloud computing systems.