<font size=2 face="sans-serif">Zane also raised an important point about
value. Any scheduler is serving one master most directly, the cloud
provider. Any sane cloud provider has some interest in serving the
interests of the cloud users, as well as having some concerns of its own.
The way my group has resolved this is in the translation from the
incoming requests to the underlying optimization problem that is solved
for placement; in that translation we fold in the cloud provider's interests
as well as the cloud user's. We currently have a fixed opinion of
the cloud provider's interests; generalizing that is a possible direction
for future progress.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Regards,</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Mike</font>