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Performance Evaluation for Cost-Efficient Public Infrastructure Cloud Use

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Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services (GECON 2014)

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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 pricing. Performance variation in virtual machines of the same type and price raises specific issues for end users: (i) the time taken to complete a task varies with performance, and therefore costs also vary (ii) the number of instances required to meet a certain problem scale within a given time being variable, so costs depend on variations in scale needed to meet the requirement; (iii) different computational requirements are better satisfied by different hardware, and understanding the relationship between instance types and available resources implies further costs. We demonstrate such variability problems empirically in a Public Infrastructure Cloud, and use the data gathered to discuss performance price issues, and how a CSB may re-price instances based on their performance.

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  1. Department of Computing, University of Surrey, Guildford, GU2 7XH, UK

    John O’Loughlin & Lee Gillam

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  1. Technology, Economics, and Policy Program, College of Engineering, Seoul National University, Gwanak-Gu, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    Jörn Altmann

  2. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

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  3. School of Computer Science, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

    Omer F. Rana

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O’Loughlin, J., Gillam, L. (2014). Performance Evaluation for Cost-Efficient Public Infrastructure Cloud Use. In: Altmann, J., Vanmechelen, K., Rana, O. (eds) Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services. GECON 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8914. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14609-6_9

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