As energy proportional computing has extended the success of DVFS (Dynamic
voltage and frequency scaling) to the entire system, DVFS control algorithms
will play a key role in reducing server clusters' power consumption. The focus
of this paper is to provide accurate cluster-level DVFS control for power
saving in a server cluster. To achieve this goal, we propose a request tracing
approach that online classifies the major causal path patterns and monitors
their performance data as a guide for accurate DVFS control.
In this paper, we intend to answer one key question to the success of cloud
computing: in cloud, do many task computing (MTC) or high throughput computing
(HTC) service providers, which offer the corresponding computing service to end
users, benefit from the economies of scale? Our research contributions are
three-fold: first, we propose an innovative usage model, called dynamic service
provision (DSP) model, for MTC or HTC service providers.
To save cost, recently more and more users choose to provision virtual
machine resources in cluster systems, especially in data centres. Maintaining a
consistent member view is the foundation of reliable cluster managements, and
it also raises several challenge issues for large scale cluster systems
deployed with virtual machines (which we call virtualized clusters). In this
paper, we introduce our experiences in design and implementation of scalable
member view management on large-scale virtual clusters.
Automatic performance debugging of parallel applications usually involves two
steps: automatic detection of performance bottlenecks and uncovering their root
causes for performance optimization. Previous work fails to resolve this
challenging issue in several ways: first, several previous efforts automate
analysis processes, but present the results in a confined way that only
identifies performance problems with apriori knowledge; second, several tools
take exploratory or confirmatory data analysis to automatically discover
relevant performance data relationships.