High performance computing (HPC) clouds are becoming an alternative to on-premise
clusters for executing scientific applications and business analytics services. Most research …

Many shared computing clusters allow users to utilize excess idle resources at lower cost or
priority, with the proviso that some or all may be taken away at any time. But, exploiting such …

The Tributary elastic control system embraces the uncertain nature of transient cloud
resources, such as AWS spot instances, to manage elastic services with latency SLOs more …

Cloud providers have begun to offer their surplus capacity in the form of low-cost transient
servers, which can be revoked unilaterally at any time. While the low cost of transient servers …

Cloud providers have begun to allow users to bid for surplus servers on a spot market.
These servers are allocated if a user's bid price is higher than their market price and revoked …

Public cloud service vendors provide a surplus of computing resources at a cheaper price as
a spot instance. Despite the cheaper price, the spot instance can be forced to be shutdown …

The use of cloud servers to host modern Internet-based services is becoming increasingly
common. Today's cloud platforms offer a choice of server types, including non-revocable on …

Recently, we have witnessed many HPC applications developed and hosted in the cloud,
which can benefit from the elastic and diversified resources on the cloud, while on the other …

Many cost-conscious public cloud workloads (“tenants”) are turning to Amazon EC2's spot
instances because, on average, these instances offer significantly lower prices (up to 10 …

To prevent rejecting requests, cloud platforms typically provision for their peak demand.
Thus, a platform's idle capacity can be significant, as demand varies widely over multiple …