NDLI: Resource-Aware Scaling of Multi-threaded Java Applications in Multi-tenancy Scenarios

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Simao, J. Rameshan, N. Veiga, L.
Copyright Year	2013
Description	Author affiliation: Inst. Super. de Eng. de Lisboa (ISEL), INESC-ID Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal (Simao, J.) \|\| Inst. Super. Tecnico, INESC-ID Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal (Veiga, L.) \|\| Univ. Politec. de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain (Rameshan, N.)
Abstract	Cloud platforms are becoming more prevalent in every computational domain, particularly in e-Science. A typical scientific workload will have a long execution time or be data intensive. Providing an execution environment for these applications, which belong to different tenants, has to deal with the horizontal scaling of execution flows (i.e. threads) and an effective allocation of resources that takes into account the effective progress made by each tenant. While this is trivial for Bag-of-Tasks and embarrassingly parallel jobs, it is hard for HPC single-process multi-threaded applications because they cannot be scaled up automatically just by adding more virtual machines to execute the workload. In this paper we present MengTian, a distributed execution environment or platform capable of addressing the issues above. It encompasses several extensions to the Java execution environment, ranging from middleware to the virtual machine code and libraries. Our Java-based platform provides a Single System Image abstraction supported by a Partially Global Address Space to transparently spawn threads across a cluster of machines. It monitors progress with different levels-of-detail and accounts and restricts resource consumption. The overall goal is to redistribute resources among different JVM instances, increasing the unitary outcome of the progress vs. resource usage ratio over time.
Starting Page	445
Ending Page	451
File Size	243046
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9780769550954
DOI	10.1109/CloudCom.2013.65
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2013-12-02
Publisher Place	UK
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Java Processor scheduling Managed runtimes Instruction sets Resource scheduling Resource management Middleware Progress monitoring Monitoring Message systems
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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