In this paper, we explore the use of live VM migration to take advantage of spot markets such
as provided by Amazon and Google. These markets provide an exciting low cost alternative …

As an integral part of our digital economy, data centers are growing rapidly, devouring a
formidable amount of energy and leaving a huge carbon footprint. While owner-operated …

In recent years, the parallel computing community has shown increasing interest in
leveraging cloud resources for executing parallel applications. Clouds exhibit several …

The foundation of cloud computing is to leverage virtualised physical computing resources
by offering them on demand as elastic infrastructure services. Processing, storage and …

Extreme scale HPC (high performance computing) applications require massively many
nodes. At these scales, transient hardware and software failures, as well as network …

After a decade of diffusion, cloud computing has received wide acceptance, but it is not yet
attractive for the HPC community. Clouds could be a cost-effective alternative to clusters and …

To speed up the time-to-market of front end applications at Nationale Nederlanden, a new
application platform is needed. The current platform is inert due to the way it is set up. The …

The massive energy consumption of data centers worldwide has resulted in a large carbon
footprint, raising serious concerns to sustainable IT initiatives and attracting a great amount …