Comparison of job scheduling policies in cloud computing

Abstract

Cloud Computing, as the new computing paradigm, provides cost-effective IT operations. In order to efficiently utilize the tremendous capabilities of the Cloud, efficient virtual machines (VMs) allocation and job scheduling mechanism is required. This paper presents an adaptive job scheduling and VM allocation method with threshold. Several scheduling policies are applied. The aim is to achieve effective resource utilization as well as saving users' cost. SimPy is used to build the simulation model. © 2013 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.