Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: M2: Malleable Metal as a Service   Existing bare-metal cloud services that provide users with physical nodes
have a number of serious disadvantage over their virtual alternatives,
including slow provisioning times, difficulty for users to release nodes and
then reuse them to handle changes in demand, and poor tolerance to failures. We
introduce M2, a bare-metal cloud service that uses network-mounted boot drives
to overcome these disadvantages. We describe the architecture and
implementation of M2 and compare its agility, scalability, and performance to
existing systems. We show that M2 can reduce provisioning time by over 50%
while offering richer functionality, and comparable run-time performance with
respect to tools that provision images into local disks. M2 is open source and
available at https://github.com/CCI-MOC/ims.

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The categories of this paper are: q-fin
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The categories of this paper are: chem-ph
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The categories of this paper are: econ
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The categories of this paper are: chao-dyn
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The categories of this paper are: stat
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The categories of this paper are: eess
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The categories of this paper are: quant-ph
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The categories of this paper are: hep-lat
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The categories of this paper are: atom-ph
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The categories of this paper are: cond-mat
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The categories of this paper are: q-alg
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The categories of this paper are: patt-sol
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The categories of this paper are: physics
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The categories of this paper are: math
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The categories of this paper are: ao-sci
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The categories of this paper are: acc-phys