Unleashing True Utility Computing with Quicksand
Zhenyuan Ruan, Shihang Li, K. Fan, Marcos K. Aguilera, Adam Belay, Seo Jin Park, Malte Schwarzkopf · 2023
Today's clouds are inefficient: their utilization of resources like CPUs, GPUs, memory, and storage is low. This inefficiency occurs because applications consume resources at variable rates and ratios, while clouds offer resources at fixed rates and ratios. This mismatch of offering and consumption styles prevents fully realizing the utility computing vision.