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| Title: | Dynamic Resource Provisioning for an Interactive System |
| Authors: | Lu, Shaowen |
| Keywords: | dynamic resource allocation
interactive system |
| Approved Date: | 16-Jun-2009 |
| Date Submitted: | 2009 |
| Abstract: | In a data centre, server clusters are typically used to provide the required processing capacity to provide acceptable response time performance to interactive applications. The workload of each application may be time-varying. Static allocation to meet peak demand is not an efficient usage of resources. Dynamic resource allocation, on the other hand, can result in efficient resource utilization while meeting the performance goals of individual applications.
In this thesis, we develop a new interactive system model where the number of logon users changes over time. Our objective is to obtain results that can be used to guide dynamic resource allocation decisions. We obtain approximate analytic results for the response time distribution at steady state for our model. Using numerical examples, we show that these results are acceptable in terms of estimating the steady state probabilities of the number of logon users. We also show by comparison with simulation that our results are acceptable in estimating the response time distribution under a variety of dynamic resource allocation scenarios. More importantly, we show that our results are accurate in terms of predicting the minimum number of processor nodes required to meet the performance goal of an interaction application. Such information is valuable to resource provisioning and we discuss how our results can be used to guide dynamic resource allocation decisions. |
| Program: | Computer Science |
| Department: | School of Computer Science |
| Degree: | Master of Mathematics |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10012/4472 |
| Appears in Collections: | Electronic Theses and Dissertations (UW)
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