Estimated Interval-Based Checkpointing (EIC) on Spot Instances in Cloud Computing

<table class="table-group" width="800px"><tr class="fig-image" id="a"><td><img alt="217547.fig.0018a" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/jam/volume-2014/217547/figures/217547.fig.0018a.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(a) </b>Total task execution time</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="b"><td><img alt="217547.fig.0018b" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/jam/volume-2014/217547/figures/217547.fig.0018b.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(b) </b>Total costs</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<table>Comparison of actual EIC outputs (execution time and cost) and estimations according to the user bid.</table>

Journal of Applied Mathematics

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Figure 18: Estimated Interval-Based Checkpointing (EIC) on Spot Instances in Cloud Computing 