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Provisioning spot market cloud resources to create cost-effective virtual clusters
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Voorsluys, W and Garg, SK and Buyya, R, Provisioning spot market cloud resources to create cost-effective virtual clusters, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 7016: ICA3PP 2011, 24-26 October 2011, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 395-408. ISBN 978-3-642-24649-4 (2011) [Refereed Conference Paper]
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DOI: doi:10.1007/978-3-642-24650-0_34
Abstract
Infrastructure-as-a-Service providers are offering their unused
resources in the form of variable-priced virtual machines (VMs),
known as "spot instances", at prices significantly lower than their standard
fixed-priced resources. To lease spot instances, users specify a maximum
price they are willing to pay per hour and VMs will run only when
the current price is lower than the user’s bid. This paper proposes a resource
allocation policy that addresses the problem of running deadlineconstrained
compute-intensive jobs on a pool of composed solely of spot
instances, while exploiting variations in price and performance to run applications
in a fast and economical way. Our policy relies on job runtime
estimations to decide what are the best types of VMs to run each job
and when jobs should run. Several estimation methods are evaluated and
compared, using trace-based simulations, which take real price variation
traces obtained from Amazon Web Services as input, as well as an application
trace from the Parallel Workload Archive. Results demonstrate
the effectiveness of running computational jobs on spot instances, at a
fraction (up to 60% lower) of the price that would normally cost on fixed
priced resources.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Conference Paper |
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Keywords: | spot market, virtual clusters, cloud computing |
Research Division: | Information and Computing Sciences |
Research Group: | Distributed computing and systems software |
Research Field: | Distributed systems and algorithms |
Objective Division: | Information and Communication Services |
Objective Group: | Information systems, technologies and services |
Objective Field: | Information systems, technologies and services not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | Garg, SK (Dr Saurabh Garg) |
ID Code: | 93884 |
Year Published: | 2011 |
Deposited By: | Information and Communication Technology |
Deposited On: | 2014-08-20 |
Last Modified: | 2014-12-08 |
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