Web hosting providers are increasingly looking into dynamic hosting to reduce costs and improve the performance of their platforms. Instead of provisioning fixed resources to each...
Zakaria Al-Qudah, Hussein A. Alzoubi, Mark Allman,...
We propose a new design for highly concurrent Internet services, which we call the staged event-driven architecture (SEDA). SEDA is intended to support massive concurrency demands...
—It has been observed in recent years that in many applications service time demands are highly variable. Without foreknowledge of exact service times of individual jobs, process...
Steve Thompson, Lester Lipsky, Sarah Tasneem, Feng...
Abstract— Shared computing utilities allocate compute, network, and storage resources to competing applications on demand. An awareness of the demands and behaviors of the hosted...
In systems where customer service demands are only known probabilistically, there is very little to distinguish between jobs. Therefore, no universal optimum scheduling strategy o...
Sarah Tasneem, Lester Lipsky, Reda A. Ammar, Howar...