Research Article

Scheduling Parallel Jobs Using Migration and Consolidation in the Cloud

Figure 1

Examples of our algorithms, in which red font means a background VM is not idle; green font indicates a job can run on its original nodes straightforward; in KEASY, blue font tells that a job should be killed first and then restart from the very beginning on other nodes.
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(a) Example of KEASY  
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(b) Example of REASY