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Cloud Storage and Online Bin Packing

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Intelligent Distributed Computing V

Part of the book series: Studies in Computational Intelligence ((SCI,volume 382))

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We study the problem of allocating memory of servers in a data center based on online requests for storage. Given an online sequence of storage requests and a cost associated with serving the request by allocating space on a certain server one seeks to select the minimum number of servers as to minimize total cost. We use two different algorithms and propose a third algorithm. We show that our proposed algorithm performs better for large number of random requests in terms of the variance in the average number of servers.

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  1. Applied Research Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University, USA

    Doina Bein

  2. School of Computer Science, The University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA

    Wolfgang Bein & Swathi Venigella

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  1. Faculty of Technology,Policy andManagement, Intelligent Interactive Dynamic Systems, Section Systems Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Jaffalaan 5, 2628BX, Delft, The Netherlands

    F. M. T. Brazier

  2. D-CIS lab, P.O. Box 90, 2600 AB, Delft, The Netherlands

    Kees Nieuwenhuis  & Gregor Pavlin  & 

  3. Faculty of Technology,Policy andManagement, Section Systems Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Jaffalaan 5, 2628BX, Delft, The Netherlands

    Martijn Warnier

  4. Faculty of Automatics, Computers and Electronics, Software Engineering Department, University of Craiova, Bvd. Decebal Nr. 107, 200440, Craiova, Romania

    Costin Badica

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Bein, D., Bein, W., Venigella, S. (2011). Cloud Storage and Online Bin Packing. In: Brazier, F.M.T., Nieuwenhuis, K., Pavlin, G., Warnier, M., Badica, C. (eds) Intelligent Distributed Computing V. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 382. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24013-3_7

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