Biologically-inspired resource management for cloud computing

• Main Author: Ching, Mark Chuen Teck.
• Other Authors: Dai Changchun
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computer systems organization::Computer-communication networks
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/42384
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Cloud computing allows the users to efficiently and dynamically provision computing resources to meet their IT needs. Most cloud providers offer two types of payment plans to the user, i.e., reservation and on-demand. The reservation plan is typically cheaper than the on-demand plan but res...