System Support for Transient Cloud Computing

In many emerging scenarios, clouds and data centers can only provide transient server availability. This project was the first to develop system support for transience that treated it as a first-class design principle. Since traditional fault-tolerance techniques are too expensive for handling transient server availability, the project developed new transience-aware mechanisms that balanced cost and performance. This project was funded by the National Science Foundation under grant CNS-1422245, a 2016 Google Faculty Research Award, and Amazon (in the form of cloud credits).