The great amounts of energy consumed by large-scale computing and network systems,
such as data centers and supercomputers, have been a major source of concern in a society …

Infrastructure-as-a-system compute clouds such as Amazon's EC2 allow users to pay a flat
hourly rate to run their virtual machine (VM) on a server providing some combination of CPU …

Modern" warehouse scale computers"(WSCs) continue to be embraced as homogeneous
computing platforms. However, due to frequent machine replacements and upgrades …

Cloud computing providers might start with near-homogeneous hardware environment. Over
time, the homogeneous environment will most likely evolve into heterogeneous one …

Cloud computing is being widely accepted and utilized in the business world. From the
perspective of businesses utilizing the cloud, it is critical to meet their customers' …

Public cloud platforms might start with homogeneous hardware; nevertheless, because of
inevitable hardware upgrades, or adding more capacity, the initial homogeneous platform …

Cloud computing slowly gained an important role in scientific application, on-demand facility
of virtualized resources is provided as a service with the help of virtualization without any …

Cloud computing technologies offer major benefits to the IT industries in terms of elasticity
and rapid provisioning, pay-as-you-go-model, reduced capital cost, access to unlimited …

The importance of demonstrating the value achieved from IT investments is long established
in the Computer Science (CS) and Information Systems (IS) literature. However, emerging …

This paper shows that, in an environment where we do not bound the number of faulty
processes, the class P of perfect failure detectors is the weakest (among realistic failure …