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Towards Efficient Resource Allocation for Heterogeneous Workloads in IaaS Clouds - 2018

Towards Efficient Resource Allocation for Heterogeneous Workloads in IaaS Clouds

Research Area:  Cloud Computing

Abstract:

Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud technology has attracted much attention from users who have demands on large amounts of computing resources. Current IaaS clouds provision resources in terms of virtual machines (VMs) with homogeneous resource configurations where different types of resources in VMs have similar share of the capacity in a physical machine (PM). However, most user jobs demand different amounts for different resources. For instance,high-performance-computing jobs require more CPU cores while big data processing applications require more memory. The existing homogeneous resource allocation mechanisms cause resource starvation where dominant resources are starved while non-dominant resources are wasted. To overcome this issue, we propose a heterogeneous resource allocation approach, called skewness-avoidance multi-resource allocation (SAMR), to allocate resource according to diversified requirements on different types of resources. Our solution includes a VM allocation algorithm to ensure heterogeneous workloads are allocated appropriately to avoid skewed resource utilization in PMs, and a model-based approach to estimate the appropriate number of active PMs to operate SAMR. We show relatively low complexity for our model-based approach for practical operation and accurate estimation. Extensive simulation results show the effectiveness of SAMR and the performance advantages over its counterparts.

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Author(s) Name:  Lei Wei,Chuan Heng Foh,Jianfei Cai and Bingsheng He

Journal name:  IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing

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Publisher name:  IEEE

DOI:  10.1109/TCC.2015.2481400

Volume Information:  Jan.-March 2018, pp. 264-275, vol. 6