This book helps to find: Concurrency in a program - how to help programmers "think parallel"? Scheduling tasks at the right granularity onto the processors of a parallel machine. The data locality problem: associating data with tasks and doing it in a way that our target audience will be able to use correctly. Scalability support in hardware: bandwidth and latencies to memory plus interconnects between processing elements. Scalability support in software: libraries, scalable algorithms, and adaptive run times to map high level software onto platform details. Synchronization constructs (and...

This book presents an approach for providing high availability to the requests of clouds clients. To achieve this objective, fail-over strategies for cloud computing data centers using integrated multilevel checkpointing algorithms are proposed in this research work. Proposed strategy integrates checkpointing features with load balancing algorithms and also employs multilevel checkpointing to decrease checkpointing overheads. Additional objective of this research work is to improve the checkpointing efficiency and prevent checkpointing from becoming the bottleneck of cloud data centers. In...