Enabled by high-speed networking in commercial, scientific, and government settings, the
realm of high performance is burgeoning with greater amounts of computational and storage …

Energy consumption represents a significant cost in data center operation. A large fraction of
the energy, however, is used to power idle servers when the workload is low. Dynamic …

Abstract Service providers are migrating to on-demand cloud computing services to
unburden the task of managing infrastructure, while cloud computing providers expand the …

We address the problem of resource allocation in a large-scale cloud environment, which
we formalize as that of dynamically optimizing a cloud configuration for green computing …

Cloud providers use virtualization technologies to provide an isolated execution
environment and agile resource provisioning. However, virtualized data centers consume …

Nowadays, virtualized platforms have become the most popular option to deploy complex
enough services. The reason is that virtualization allows resource providers to increase …

The proliferation of cloud computing faces social and economic concerns on energy
consumption. We present formulations for cloud servers to minimize energy consumption as …

There are several physical data centers in cloud environment with hundreds or thousands of
computers. Virtualization is the key technology to make cloud computing feasible. It …

The proliferation of Internet services drives the data center expansion in both size and the
number. More importantly, the energy consumption (as part of the total cost of ownership …

The use of Information and Communication Technologies has significantly improved the
efficiency of modern supply chains. Existing IT architecture is too rigid to allow new …