Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
		236635 - On the Management and Efficiency of Cloud Based Services
		Spring 2012
	Assignments Lecture 1 - Paper #2 Choose and answer one of the two: Option #1: The authors of the JIQ paper decompose their algorithm into two different scheduling problems. Which are they? Option #2: When describing the reversed load balancing problem (that of servers joining dispatchers' I-queues), the authors state that "all communication between processors and I-queues are off the critical path" (end of 2.2). What do they mean by that? Due date:   1/4/2012 Lecture 2 - Paper #1 Q: The BaTS algorithm described in the paper, gathers an initial estimation of tasks running times and their costs. Why does the algorithm keeps gathering statistics after the initial phase? Name two reasons. Due date:   15/4/2012 Lecture 3 - Paper #4 What new contribution does this paper present, with respect to previous work? Due date:   15/4/2012 Lecture 4 - Paper #6 What resources are needed to migrate a VM? and which resource is the most time consuming? Due date:   29/4/2012 Lecture 5 - Paper #7 Mention and briefly explain two motivations for using WAN migration. Due date:   6/5/2012 Lecture 6 - Paper #21 Why do we need RAMClouds, why are conventional storage disks not enough? Due date:   20/5/2012 Lecture 7 - Paper #20 What connection between resource utilization and power consumption is assumed in the article's energy model? Due date:   20/5/2012 Lecture 8 - Paper #13 What is the danger in the proposed separation between a “broker” and a “provider”? Due date:   3/6/2012 Lecture 9 - Paper #19 What is the relation between the suggested solution and load balancing? Due date:   3/6/2012 Lecture 10 -Paper #25 What is the algorithm input by the user? and by the cloud providers? Due date:   17/6/2012