Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is a general purpose programmable logic device
that can be configured by a customer after manufacturing to perform from a simple logic gate …

A recently introduced cloud simulation framework is extended to support self-organizing and
self-management local strategies in the cloud resource hierarchy. This dynamic hardware …

Recently, a new management and resource delivery model based on self‐organization and
self‐management (SOSM) principles for heterogeneous cloud infrastructures was proposed …

Cloud computing offers users a convenient scalable and flexible scenario for developing,
running, and testing different applications in a pay-as-you-go model. However, the …

Hardware accelerators have been widely used in the scientific community, as the gain in the
performance of HPC applications is significant. Hardware accelerators have been used in …

In this chapter, a review of existing cloud simulation frameworks is given along with an
overview of the recently proposed CloudLightning simulation framework. Moreover, the …

There is a tendency, during the last years, to migrate from the traditional homogeneous
clouds and centralized provisioning of resources to heterogeneous clouds with specialized …

The ever-increasing growth of data centres and fog resources makes difficult for current
simulation frameworks to model large computing infrastructures. Therefore, a major trade-off …

Migrating the database layer remains a key challenge when moving a software system to a
new cloud provider. The database is often very large, poorly documented, and used to store …

The ever-increasing growth of data centres and fog resources makes difficult for current
simulation frameworks to model large computing infrastructures. Therefore, a major trade-off …