Entropy: a consolidation manager for clusters Export

@inproceedings{hermenier:sigops09, abstract = {Clusters provide powerful computing environments, but in practice much of this power goes to waste, due to the static allocation of tasks to nodes, regardless of their changing computational requirements. Dynamic consolidation is an approach that migrates tasks within a cluster as their computational requirements change, both to reduce the number of nodes that need to be active and to eliminate temporary overload situations. Previous dynamic consolidation strategies have relied on task placement heuristics that use only local optimization and typically do not take migration overhead into account. However, heuristics based on only local optimization may miss the globally optimal solution, resulting in unnecessary resource usage, and the overhead for migration may nullify the benefits of consolidation.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Hermenier, Fabien and Lorca, Xavier and Menaud, Jean M. and Muller, Gilles and Lawall, Julia}, booktitle = {VEE '09: Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS international conference on Virtual execution environments}, citeulike-article-id = {5344457}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1508300}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1508293.1508300}, doi = {10.1145/1508293.1508300}, isbn = {978-1-60558-375-4}, keywords = {benchmark, cluster, consolidation, migration}, location = {Washington, DC, USA}, pages = {41--50}, posted-at = {2009-10-27 14:50:54}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Entropy: a consolidation manager for clusters}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1508293.1508300}, year = {2009} }

TY - CONF ID - hermenier:sigops09 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5344457 N2 - Clusters provide powerful computing environments, but in practice much of this power goes to waste, due to the static allocation of tasks to nodes, regardless of their changing computational requirements. Dynamic consolidation is an approach that migrates tasks within a cluster as their computational requirements change, both to reduce the number of nodes that need to be active and to eliminate temporary overload situations. Previous dynamic consolidation strategies have relied on task placement heuristics that use only local optimization and typically do not take migration overhead into account. However, heuristics based on only local optimization may miss the globally optimal solution, resulting in unnecessary resource usage, and the overhead for migration may nullify the benefits of consolidation. CY - Washington, DC, USA SN - 978-1-60558-375-4 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 50 TI - Entropy: a consolidation manager for clusters PB - ACM T2 - VEE '09: Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS international conference on Virtual execution environments SP - 41 KW - benchmark KW - cluster KW - consolidation KW - migration AU - Hermenier, Fabien AU - Lorca, Xavier AU - Menaud, Jean AU - Muller, Gilles AU - Lawall, Julia PY - 2009/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1508293.1508300 ER -