Tag : cloud

Cloud computing means that instead of all the computer hardware and software you're using on your desktop, or somewhere inside your company's network, it's provided for you as a service by another company and accessed over the Internet, usually in a completely seamless way. An energy-saving task scheduling algorithm based on the vacation queuing model for cloud computing systems is proposed in this thesis. Exactly where the hardware and software is located and how it all works doesn't matter to you, the user—it's just somewhere up in the nebulous "cloud" that the Internet represents.