Benchmarking the performance of public cloud providers is a common research topic.
Previous work has already extensively evaluated the performance of different cloud …

Elasticity can be seen as the ability of a system to increase or decrease the computing
resources allocated in a dynamic and on demand way. It is an important feature provided by …

As the size and complexity of Cloud systems increase, the manual management of these
solutions becomes a challenging issue as more personnel, resources and expertise are …

Quality of service plays is an important factor in distributed computing. Cloud computing has
been the paradigm in distributed computing. Under cloud computing, computing resources …

In the simulation of complex multi-scale flows arising in weather and climate modelling, one
of the biggest challenges is to satisfy strict service requirements in terms of time to solution …

The concept of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has been introduced as a new
paradigm in the recent few years. NFV offers a number of benefits including significantly …

In this paper, we discuss the nature of variability in compute performance in Infrastructure
Clouds and how this presents opportunities for Cloud Service Brokers (CSB) in relation to …

Onboard computing demands for space missions are continually increasing due to the need
for real-time sensor and autonomous processing combined with limited communication …

Computing systems are evolving rapidly. At the device level, emerging devices are
beginning to compete with traditional CMOS systems. At the architecture level, novel …

Due to harsh and inaccessible operating environments, space computing presents many
unique challenges with respect to stringent power, reliability, and programmability …