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  bibo_abstract:
  - Cloud computing aims to give users virtually unlimited pay-per-use computing resources
    without the burden of managing the underlying infrastructure. We claim that, in
    order to realize the full potential of cloud computing, the user must be presented
    with a pricing model that offers flexibility at the requirements level, such as
    a choice between different degrees of execution speed and the cloud provider must
    be presented with a programming model that offers flexibility at the execution
    level, such as a choice between different scheduling policies. In such a flexible
    framework, with each job, the user purchases a virtual computer with the desired
    speed and cost characteristics, and the cloud provider can optimize the utilization
    of resources across a stream of jobs from different users. We designed a flexible
    framework to test our hypothesis, which is called FlexPRICE (Flexible Provisioning
    of Resources in a Cloud Environment) and works as follows. A user presents a job
    to the cloud. The cloud finds different schedules to execute the job and presents
    a set of quotes to the user in terms of price and duration for the execution.
    The user then chooses a particular quote and the cloud is obliged to execute the
    job according to the chosen quote. FlexPRICE thus hides the complexity of the
    actual scheduling decisions from the user, but still provides enough flexibility
    to meet the users actual demands. We implemented FlexPRICE in a simulator called
    PRICES that allows us to experiment with our framework. We observe that FlexPRICE
    provides a wide range of execution options-from fast and expensive to slow and
    cheap-- for the whole spectrum of data-intensive and computation-intensive jobs.
    We also observe that the set of quotes computed by FlexPRICE do not vary as the
    number of simultaneous jobs increases.@eng
  bibo_authorlist:
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Thomas A
      foaf_name: Henzinger, Thomas A
      foaf_surname: Henzinger
      foaf_workInfoHomepage: http://www.librecat.org/personId=40876CD8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
    orcid: 0000−0002−2985−7724
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Anmol
      foaf_name: Tomar, Anmol
      foaf_surname: Tomar
      foaf_workInfoHomepage: http://www.librecat.org/personId=3D8D36B6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Vasu
      foaf_name: Singh, Vasu
      foaf_surname: Singh
      foaf_workInfoHomepage: http://www.librecat.org/personId=4DAE2708-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Thomas
      foaf_name: Wies, Thomas
      foaf_surname: Wies
      foaf_workInfoHomepage: http://www.librecat.org/personId=447BFB88-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Damien
      foaf_name: Zufferey, Damien
      foaf_surname: Zufferey
      foaf_workInfoHomepage: http://www.librecat.org/personId=4397AC76-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
    orcid: 0000-0002-3197-8736
  bibo_doi: 10.1109/CLOUD.2010.71
  dct_date: 2010^xs_gYear
  dct_language: eng
  dct_publisher: IEEE@
  dct_title: 'FlexPRICE: Flexible provisioning of resources in a cloud environment@'
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