ACM SRC poster
Moussa Taifi · 2011
Cloud computing benefits extensively from economies of scale to provide cost effective computing. Recently, reliability has been introduced as a potential tradeoff point for delivering compute resources while decreasing further the price of cloud resources. The usage of fair market conditions create an environment where sellers and buyers of compute resources can benefit from trading their resources. The resource use efficiency can potentially be achieved as a result. While there are many advantages to the usage of auction-based infrastructure there are currently no practical computing platforms that can harness such volatile environments effectively. This research work reports a methodology and a toolkit designed to address the challenges of using volatile cloud-based auctioned resources for MPI applications.