For a cloud service provider, it necessitates an emerging cloud ecosystem to consolidate the
existing users and attract more potential users, further gaining its market share. Therefore, in …

Elasticity is considered to be the most beneficial characteristic of cloud environments, which
distinguishes the cloud from clusters and grids. Whereas elasticity has become mainstream …

Multi-threading is a common way for programs to benefit from the multi/many-core design.
However, the performance of some parallel programs does not increase/even decrease as …

Heterogeneous systems are becoming increasingly relevant, due to their performance and
energy efficiency capabilities, being present in all types of computing platforms, from …

O crescimento de sistemas distribuídos de larga escala tem acelerado exponencialmente
nos últimos anos, chegando até o nível de exascale. Por causa do custo de aluguel de …

Cloud Computing (CC) have been widely adopted in the educational institutions during the
past decade, as the virtual infrastructures and shared architectures offer various work groups …

Resource-constrained engineering teams often face challenges in optimizing cloud
infrastructure costs while maintaining the necessary compute resources for their workloads …

The transformation of the Information Technology world has been evolving exponentially in
the last couple of years. The technology gives many choices, enabling businesses …

Public cloud providers offer a wide range of instance types with different speeds,
configurations, and prices, which allows users to choose the most appropriate configurations …

Recently in many scientific disciplines, eg physics, chemistry, biology and multidisciplinary
research have shifted to computational modelling. The main instrument for such numerical …