In Cloud, Do MTC or HTC Service Providers Benefit from the Economies of Scale?
Lei Wang, Jianfeng Zhan, Weisong Shi, Yi Liang, Lin Yuan · 2010
Cloud computing, which is advocated as an economic platform for daily computing, has become a hot topic for both industrial and academic communities in the last couple of years. The basic idea behind cloud computing is that resource providers, which own the cloud platform, offer elastic resources to end users. In this paper, we intend to answer one key question to the success of cloud computing: in cloud, do many task computing (MTC) or high throughput computing (HTC) service providers, which offer the corresponding computing service to end users, benefit from the economies of scale? To the best of our knowledge, no previous work designs and implements the enabling system to consolidate MTC and HTC workloads on the cloud platform; no one answers the above question. Our research contributions are three-fold: first, we propose an innovative usage model, called