Evaluating the cost-benefit of using cloud computing to extend the capacity of clusters
Proceedings of the 18th ACM international symposium on High performance distributed 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
An elasticity model for High Throughput Computing clusters
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Dynamic Deployment and Management of Elastic Virtual Clusters
CHINAGRID '11 Proceedings of the 2011 Sixth Annual ChinaGrid Conference
Infrastructure Deployment Over the Cloud
CLOUDCOM '11 Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Third International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science
A Novel Elastic Resource Allocation Strategy of Virtual Cluster
PAAP '11 Proceedings of the 2011 Fourth International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Programming
An Energy Manager for High Performance Computer Clusters
ISPA '12 Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE 10th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications
An economic and energy-aware analysis of the viability of outsourcing cluster computing to a cloud
Future Generation Computer Systems
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This paper introduces Elastic Cloud Computing Cluster (EC3), a tool that creates elastic virtual clusters on top of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Clouds. The clusters are self-managed entities that scale out to a larger number of nodes on demand, up to a maximum size specified by the user. Whenever idle resources are detected, the clusters automatically scale in, according to some predefined policies, in order to cut down the costs in the case of using a public Cloud provider. This creates the illusion of a real cluster without requiring an investment beyond the actual usage. Two different case studies are presented to assess the effectiveness of an elastic virtual cluster. The results show that the usage of self-managed elastic clusters represents an important economic saving when compared both to physical clusters and to static virtual clusters deployed on an IaaS Cloud, with a reduced penalty in the elasticity management.