A survey and taxonomy of resource optimisation for executing Bag-of-Task applications on public clouds
Abstract
Cloud computing has been widely adopted due to the flexibility in resource provisioning and on-demand pricing models. Entire clusters of Virtual Machines (VMs) can be dynamically provisioned to meet the computational demands of users. However, from a user’s perspective, it is still challenging to utilise cloud resources efficiently. This is because an overwhelmingly wide variety of resource types with different prices and significant performance variations are available. This paper presents a survey and taxonomy of existing research in optimising the execution of Bag-of-Task applications on cloud resources. A BoT application consists of multiple independent tasks, each of which can be executed by a VM in any order; these applications are widely used by both the scientific communities and commercial organisations. The objectives of this survey are as follows: (i) to provide the reader with a concise understanding of existing research on optimising the execution of BoT applications on the cloud, (ii) to define a taxonomy that categorises current frameworks to compare and contrast them, and (iii) to present current trends and future research directions in the area.
Citation
Thai , L , Varghese , B & Barker , A 2018 , ' A survey and taxonomy of resource optimisation for executing Bag-of-Task applications on public clouds ' , Future Generation Computer Systems , vol. 82 , pp. 1-11 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2017.11.038
Publication
Future Generation Computer Systems
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0167-739XType
Journal article
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© 2017 Elsevier B.V. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2017.11.038
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