Cloud computing enables users to provision resources on demand and execute applications
in a way that meets their requirements by choosing virtual resources that fit their application …

Cloud computing systems (or hosting datacenters) have attracted a lot of attention in recent
years. Utility computing, reliable data storage, and infrastructure-independent computing are …

Resource provisioning in Cloud providers is a challenge because of the high variability of
load over time. On the one hand, the providers can serve most of the requests owning only a …

As long as virtualization has been introduced in data centers, it has been opening new
chances for resource management. Nowadays, it is not just used as a tool for consolidating …

The monitoring of QoS parameters in Services Computing as well as in Clouds has been a
functionality provided by all contemporary systems. As the optimization of energy …

Most chip-multiprocessors nowadays adopt a large shared last-level cache (SLLC). This
paper is motivated by our analysis and evaluation of state-of-the-art cache management …

Shared last-level caches (SLLCs) on chip-multiprocessors play an important role in bridging
the performance gap between processing cores and main memory. Although there are …

The power consumption of a large scale system ultimately limits its performance. Consuming
less energy while preserving performance leads to better system utilization at scale. The iso …

The cloud and the Web 2.0 have contributed to democratize the Internet, allowing everybody
to share information, services, and IT resources around the network. With the arrival of digital …

Cloud computing is a recent innovation, which provides various services on a usage based
payment model. The rapid expansion in data centers has triggered the dramatic increase in …