NDLI: Resource Management for Elastic Cloud Workflows

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Li Yu Thain, D.
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	Cloud computing systems have joined campus and private grids as powerful and highly scalable environments for scientific computing. Furthermore, distributed applications are typically expressed in a form that allows them to run on an arbitrary number of nodes while tolerating failures and changes in available resources. This flexibility introduces problems relating to how many nodes an application can use, and how they should be allocated. In this paper, we explore these problems by presenting a general purpose architecture for scalable cloud applications, and describe inherent resource management problems. We address these challenges by developing methods for runtime measurement of the number of nodes an application can use, for appropriately placing masters and workers, and for matching workers to masters. Finally, we propose a resource management mechanism that allows automatic resource allocation and flexible resource distribution. These techniques are presented in the context of our specific cloud architecture, but the lessons apply to any system where competing elastic applications must be right-sized to the available resources.
Starting Page	775
Ending Page	780
File Size	218049
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781467313957
DOI	10.1109/CCGrid.2012.107
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2012-05-13
Publisher Place	Canada
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Catalogs Servers Resource management Computer architecture Mathematical model Equations Runtime
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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