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Task Scheduling on the Cloud with Hard Constraints
Long Thai, Blesson Varghese, Adam Barker
Scheduling Bag-of-Tasks (BoT) applications on the cloud can be more challenging than grid and cluster environ- ments. This is because a user may have a budgetary constraint or a de…
Budget Constrained Execution of Multiple Bag-of-Tasks Applications on the Cloud
Long Thai, Blesson Varghese, Adam Barker
Optimising the execution of Bag-of-Tasks (BoT) applications on the cloud is a hard problem due to the trade- offs between performance and monetary cost. The problem can be further…
Executing Bag of Distributed Tasks on Virtually Unlimited Cloud Resources
Long Thai, Blesson Varghese, Adam Barker
Bag-of-Distributed-Tasks (BoDT) application is the collection of identical and independent tasks each of which requires a piece of input data located around the world. As a result,…
Cloud Services Brokerage: A Survey and Research Roadmap
Adam Barker, Blesson Varghese, Long Thai
A Cloud Services Brokerage (CSB) acts as an intermediary between cloud service providers (e.g., Amazon and Google) and cloud service end users, providing a number of value adding s…
Ad hoc Cloud Computing: From Concept to Realization
Gary Andrew McGilvary, Adam Barker, Malcolm Atkinson
This paper presents the first complete, integrated and end-to-end solution for ad hoc cloud computing environments. Ad hoc clouds harvest resources from existing sporadically avail…