Resource Deflation
Prateek Sharma, Ahmed Ali-Eldin, Prashant J. Shenoy · 2019
Data centers and clouds are increasingly offering low-cost computational resources in the form of transient virtual machines. Whenever demand for computational resources exceeds their availability, transient resources can reclaimed by preempting the transient VMs. Conventionally, these transient VMs are used by low-priority applications that can tolerate the disruption caused by preemptions.