Optimal provisioning for scheduling divisible loads with reserved cloud resources

• Main Authors: Hu, Menglan., Luo, Jun., Veeravalli, Bharadwaj.
• Other Authors: School of Computer Engineering
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/102033; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/16390
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Cloud computing offers customers an efficient way to flexibly allocate resources to meet demands. Cloud service vendors can offer consumers three purchasing plans, i.e., on-demand, spot, and reserved instances for resource provisioning. Since price of resources in reservation plan is generally cheap...