Flower: Workflow management and heat-aware scheduling for modern cloud infrastructures

Cloud computing has given users access to virtually infinite computing power. Cloud service providers operate data centers consisting of hundreds, sometimes thousands of interconnected machines. The machines dissipate heat that is undesirable because it may lead components to overheat. Air conditioners are used to cool the air and regulate the...

Nebu: A topology-aware deployment system for reliable virtualized multi-cluster environments

Petabytes of data are processed daily by distributed applications built upon Hadoop and MongoDB. A significant fraction of these applications use cloud infrastructure to cope with this vast amount of data. Commercial clouds use virtualized environments, but most distributed applications are designed around the idea that they run on physical...