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Efficient Redundancy Techniques In Cloud And Desktop Grid Systems Using Map/G/C-Type Queues, Srinivas R. Chakravarthy, Alexander Rumyantsev

Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering Publications

Cloud computing is continuing to prove its flexibility and versatility in helping industries and businesses as well as academia as a way of providing needed computing capacity. As an important alternative to cloud computing, desktop grids allow to utilize the idle computer resources of an enterprise/community by means of distributed computing system, providing a more secure and controllable environment with lower operational expenses. Further, both cloud computing and desktop grids are meant to optimize limited resources and at the same time to decrease the expected latency for users. The crucial parameter for optimization both in cloud computing and in desktop …