From the abstract: > In the near future, cloud providers will sell their users virtual machines with CPU, memory, network, and storage resources whose prices c

From the abstract: > In the near future, cloud providers will sell their users virtual machines with CPU, memory, network, and storage resources whose prices constantly change according to market-driven supply and demand conditions. Running traditional operating systems in these virtual machines is a poor fit: traditional operating systems are not aware of changing resource prices and their sole aim is to maximize performance with no consideration of costs. Consequently, they yield low profits. > We present nom, a profit-maximizing operating system designed for cloud computing platforms with dynamic resource prices.