SPECULATIVE ALLOCATION OF INSTANCES

摘要

In one example embodiment, operations may include predicting winning bidders in an auction for computing resources; pre-placing machine images before the auction has been completed; booting-up at least a portion of the pre-placed machine images before the auction has been completed; and assigning a booted-up virtual machine to one of the predicted auction winners.

主权项

1. A method for speculative allocation of computing resources, comprising:
tracking data, for each of one or more users of computing resources, including a respective history of auction bids and a respective history of computing resource usage; predicting, based on the tracked data, respective probabilities that each of the one or more users will submit a qualifying bid for one or more available computing resources during a current auction; ranking the predictions; and preparing the available datacenter resources for allocation to at least one of the users in accordance with the ranked predictions.