Business-driven short-term management of a hybrid IT infrastructure

نویسندگان

  • Paulo Ditarso Maciel
  • Francisco Vilar Brasileiro
  • Ricardo Araújo Santos
  • David Candeia
  • Raquel Vigolvino Lopes
  • Marcus Carvalho
  • Renato Miceli
  • Nazareno Andrade
  • Miranda Mowbray
چکیده

We consider the problem of managing a hybrid computing infrastructure whose processing elements are comprised of in-house dedicated machines, virtual machines acquired on-demand from a cloud computing provider through short-term reservation contracts, and virtual machines made available by the remote peers of a best-effort peer-to-peer (P2P) grid. Each of these resources has different cost basis and associated quality of service guarantees. The applications that run in this hybrid infrastructure are characterized by a utility function: the utility gained with the completion of an application depends on the time taken to execute it. We take a businessdriven approach to manage this infrastructure, aiming at maximizing the NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpdc.2011.11.001.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • J. Parallel Distrib. Comput.

دوره 72  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2012