Self-managed cost-efficient virtual elastic clusters on hybrid Cloud infrastructures

Amanda Calatrava, Eloy Romero, Germán Moltó, Miguel Caballer, and Jose Miguel Alonso. Self-managed cost-efficient virtual elastic clusters on hybrid Cloud infrastructures. Future Generation Computer Systems, 61:13–25, 8 2016.

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Abstract

This paper describes the developments to produce EC3 (Elastic Cloud Computing Cluster), a tool that creates self-managed cost-efficient virtual hybrid elastic clusters on top of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Clouds. Using spot instances, together with checkpointing techniques, EC3 can significantly reduce the total cost of executions while introducing automatic fault tolerance. Moreover, EC3 can deploy and manage hybrid clusters across on-premises and public Cloud resources, thus introducing Cloud bursting capabilities. A case study is presented to assess the effectiveness of the tool featuring the structural dynamic analysis of buildings. In addition, checkpointing algorithms are evaluated in a real Cloud environment with existing workloads to study their effectiveness. The results show the feasibility and benefits of this type of clusters for computationally intensive applications.

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@article{Calatrava2016scv,
   abstract = {This paper describes the developments to produce EC3 (Elastic Cloud Computing Cluster), a tool that creates self-managed cost-efficient virtual hybrid elastic clusters on top of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Clouds. Using spot instances, together with checkpointing techniques, EC3 can significantly reduce the total cost of executions while introducing automatic fault tolerance. Moreover, EC3 can deploy and manage hybrid clusters across on-premises and public Cloud resources, thus introducing Cloud bursting capabilities. A case study is presented to assess the effectiveness of the tool featuring the structural dynamic analysis of buildings. In addition, checkpointing algorithms are evaluated in a real Cloud environment with existing workloads to study their effectiveness. The results show the feasibility and benefits of this type of clusters for computationally intensive applications.},
   author = {Amanda Calatrava and Eloy Romero and Germán Moltó and Miguel Caballer and Jose Miguel Alonso},
   doi = {10.1016/j.future.2016.01.018},
   issn = {0167739X},
   journal = {Future Generation Computer Systems},
   keywords = {Checkpointing,Cloud Bursting,Cloud Computing,Cluster computing,Hybrid clusters,Spot instances},
   month = {8},
   pages = {13-25},
   title = {Self-managed cost-efficient virtual elastic clusters on hybrid Cloud infrastructures},
   volume = {61},
   url = {https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0167739X16300024},
   year = {2016}
}