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Dr. Rajkumar Buyya, along with his PhD student Saurabh Garg and
collaborator Professor Howard J Siegel, has received the Best Paper Award
at the 32nd Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC 2009,
Wellington, New Zealand, Jan. 2009) for his work on "Scheduling Parallel
Applications on Utility Grids: Time and Cost Trade-off Management". The
paper was co-authored by Abell Endowed Chair Distinguished Professor from
Colorado State University, USA who visited the GRIDS Lab during June 2008.

The paper has received two awards: (1) the Best Paper Award ($1000) and
(2) the Best Student Award ($500) sponsored by CORE, which is an
association of university departments of computer science in Australia and
New Zealand.

This research is funded through grants from the ARC and DIISR.
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