One of the significant limitations in the evaluation of hybrid clouds is the difficulty in
validating new solutions by their deployment in real systems since replication of tests on …

Energy consumption in Cloud computing is a significant issue in regards to aspects such as
the cost of energy, cooling in the data center and the environmental impact of cloud data …

The use of whole building simulation is increasing to support the design process. Often it is
desirable to evaluate many scenarios, however the simulation time involved presents a …

Estimating future runtime performance and cost is an essential task for Chief Information
Officers in deciding whether to adopt a Cloud-based system. Benchmarking and simulation …

Cloud computing offers software as a service (SaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), and
platform as service (PaaS) on pay-as-you-go model over the Internet. Although Cloud have …

During the last years, except from the traditional CPU based hardware servers, hardware
accelerators are widely used in various HPC application areas. More specifically, Graphics …

With the growing popularity of cloud computing, different infrastructure as a service cloud
frameworks do exists. Each framework has significant impact on robustness, scalability, fault …

Mobile software objects are autonomous computational entities that travel in large-scale and
widely-distributed heterogeneous systems, and whose functionality can be attached to …

Energy consumption is currently one of the main issues in large distributed systems. More
specifically, the efficient management of energy without losing performance has become a …