SPOTCKPT is a simulator for efficiently utilizing Amazon EC2's Spot Instances
It provides simulation for 24 checkpointing schemes on 42 spot instances on Amazon EC2.
Contact information: Sangho Yi, Derrick Kondo, and Artur Andrzejak
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Sangho Yi, Derrick Kondo, and Artur Andrzejak, "Reducing Costs of Spot Instances via Checkpointing in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud," submitted to IEEE CLOUD 2010. [Preprint PDF]



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Last modified: Sunday, 14 Mar. 2010.