Let the Clouds Compute: Cost-Efficient Workload Distribution in Infrastructure Clouds
Key: LSH+12-1
Author: Ulrich Lampe, Melanie Siebenhaar, Ronny Hans, Dieter Schuller, Ralf Steinmetz
Date: November 2012
Kind: In proceedings
Publisher: Springer
Book title: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services (GECON 2012)
Keywords: Cloud Computing, Infrastructure, Workload, Distribution, Deployment, Offline, Optimization, Exact, Heuristic
Abstract: With cloud computing, a virtually inexhaustible pool of computing capacity has become available to IT users. However, given the large number of Infrastructure as a Service offers with differing pricing options, the cost-efficient distribution of workloads constitutes a complex challenge. In this work-in-progress paper, we formally describe the Cloud-oriented Workload Distribution Problem and propose both an exact and a heuristic optimization approach. Through an evaluation that is based on realistic data from the cloud market, we examine the performance and practical applicability of these approaches.
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