Efficient Resource Management for Data Centers : The ACTiCLOUD Approach

• Despite their proliferation as a dominant computing paradigm, cloud computing systems lack effective mechanisms to manage their vast resources efficiently. Resources are stranded and fragmented, limiting cloud applicability only to classes of applications that pose moderate resource demands. In addition, the need for reduced cost through consolidation introduces performance interference, as multiple VMs are co-located on the same nodes. To avoid such issues, current providers follow a rather conservative approach regarding resource management that leads to significant underutilization. ACTiCLOUD is a three-year Horizon 2020 project that aims at creating a novel cloud architecture that breaks existing scale-up and share-nothing barriers and enables the holistic management of physical resources, at both local and distributed cloud site levels. This extended abstract provides a brief overview of the resource management part of ACTiCLOUD, focusing on the design principles and the components.

Ämnesord

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik -- Datorsystem (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering -- Computer Systems (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

resource management

resource efficiency

cloud computing

data centers

in-memory databases

NUMA

heterogeneous

scale-up/out

Publikations- och innehållstyp

ref (ämneskategori)

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