The nom Profit-Maximizing Operating System
Muli Ben-Yehuda, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda, Dan Tsafrir · 2016
In the near future, cloud providers will sell their users virtual machines with CPU, memory, network, and storage resources whose prices constantly change according to market-driven supply and demand conditions. Running traditional operating systems in these virtual machines is a poor fit: traditional operating systems are not aware of changing resource prices and their sole aim is to maximize performance with no consideration of costs. Consequently, they yield low profits.