Batch schedulers commonly used to manage access to parallel computing clusters are not typically configured to enable easy configuration of application-specific scheduling policies. In addition, their sophisticated scheduling algorithms can be relatively expensive to execute. Thus, for example, applications that require the rapid execution of many small tasks often do not perform well. Frey pro...

Cloud computing allows business customers to elastically scale up and down their resource usage based on needs. This feature eliminates the dilemma of planning IT infrastructures for Cloud users, where under-provisioning compromises service quality while over-provisioning wastes investment as well as electricity. It offers virtually infinite resource. It also made the desirable “pay as you go” ...

In cloud computing, cloud providers can offer cloud consumers two provisioning plans for computing resources, formal reservation and on-demand plans. Usually, cost of utilizing computing resources provisioned by reservation plan is cheaper than that provisioned by ondemand plan, since cloud consumer has to pay to provider in advance. With the reservation plan(Local Adjustment), the consumer can...

Theoretical models of the evolution of matrotrophy from a lecithotrophic ancestor suggest that resource availability plays a major role in selective scenarios favoring a change in offspring provisioning. We examined effects of feeding level on embryo provisioning in the livebearing fish Gambusia geiseri, a species with dual provisioning of embryos via both yolk sequestered in large eggs and pos...

Allocating resources in networks to QoS flows may require undesirable delays or costs. We consider a dynamic Service Level Agreement (SLA) negotiation scheme between peer autonomous systems (ASes) that implement DiffServ per domain behaviors. For concreteness, we tailor our scheme to account for the needs of Voice over IP transport across multiple ASes. We present a heuristic but computationall...