Service Performance Pattern Analysis and Prediction of Commercially Available Cloud Providers

in Service Performance Pattern Analysis and Prediction of Commercially Available Cloud Providers (2016, December 12)

The knowledge of service performance of cloud providers is essential for cloud service users to choose the cloud services that meet their requirements. Instantaneous performance readings are accessible ... [more ▼]

The knowledge of service performance of cloud providers is essential for cloud service users to choose the cloud services that meet their requirements. Instantaneous performance readings are accessible, but prolonged observations provide more reliable information. However, due to technical complexities and costs of monitoring services, it may not be possible to access the service performance of cloud provider for longer time durations. The extended observation periods are also a necessity for prediction of future behavior of services. These predictions have very high value for decision making both for private and corporate cloud users, as the uncertainty about the future performance of purchased cloud services is an important risk factor. Predictions can be used by specialized entities, such as cloud service brokers (CSBs) to optimally recommend cloud services to the cloud users. In this paper, we address the challenge of prediction. To achieve this, the current service performance patterns of cloud providers are analyzed and future performance of cloud providers are predicted using to the observed service performance data. It is done using two automatic predicting approaches: ARIMA and ETS. Error measures of entire service performance prediction of cloud providers are evaluated against the actual performance of the cloud providers computed over a period of one month. Results obtained in the performance prediction show that the methodology is applicable for both short- term and long-term performance prediction. [less ▲]

Comparisons of Heat Map and IFL Technique to Evaluate the Performance of Commercially Available Cloud Providers

in IEEE (Ed.) 2016 IEEE 9th International Conference on Cloud Computing (2016)

Cloud service providers (CSPs) offer different Ser- vice Level Agreements (SLAs) to the cloud users. Cloud Service Brokers (CSBs) provide multiple sets of alternatives to the cloud users according to ... [more ▼]

Cloud service providers (CSPs) offer different Ser- vice Level Agreements (SLAs) to the cloud users. Cloud Service Brokers (CSBs) provide multiple sets of alternatives to the cloud users according to users requirements. Generally, a CSB considers the service commitments of CSPs rather than the actual quality of CSPs services. To overcome this issue, the broker should verify the service performances while recommending cloud services to the cloud users, using all available data. In this paper, we compare our two approaches to do so: a min-max-min decomposition based on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Logic (IFL) and a Performance Heat Map technique, to evaluate the performance of commercially available cloud providers. While the IFL technique provides simple, total order of the evaluated CSPs, Performance Heat Map provides transparent and explanatory, yet consistent evaluation of service performance of commercially available CSPs. The identified drawbacks of the IFL technique are: 1) It does not return the accurate performance evaluation over multiple decision alternatives due to highly influenced by critical feedback of the evaluators; 2) Overall ranking of the CSPs is not as expected according to the performance measurement. As a result, we recommend to use performance Heat Map for this problem. [less ▲]

An Evaluation Model for Selecting Cloud Services from Commercially Available Cloud Providers

in 2015 IEEE 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom) (2015, December)

Evalix: Classification and Prediction of Job Resource Consumption on HPC Platforms

in Proc. of the 19th Intl. Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing (JSSPP'15), part of the 29th IEEE/ACM Intl. Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2015) (2015, May)

At the advent of a wished (or forced) convergence between High Performance Computing (HPC) platforms, stand-alone accelerators and virtualized resources from Cloud Computing (CC) systems, this ar- ticle ... [more ▼]

At the advent of a wished (or forced) convergence between High Performance Computing (HPC) platforms, stand-alone accelerators and virtualized resources from Cloud Computing (CC) systems, this ar- ticle unveils the job prediction component of the Evalix project. This framework aims at an improved efficiency of the underlying Resource and Job Management System (RJMS) within heterogeneous HPC facil- ities by the automatic evaluation and characterization of the submitted workload. The objective is not only to better adapt the scheduled jobs to the available resource capabilities, but also to reduce the energy costs. For that purpose, we collected the resource consumption of all the jobs executed on a production cluster for a period of three months. Based on the analysis then on the classification of the jobs, we computed a resource consumption model. The objective is to train a set of predictors based on the aforementioned model, that will give the estimated CPU, mem- ory and IO used by the jobs. The analysis of the resource consumption highlighted that different classes of jobs have different kinds of resource needs and the classification of the jobs enabled to characterize several application patterns of the users. We also discovered that several users whose resource usage on the cluster is considered as too low, are respon- sible for a loss of CPU time on the order of five years over the considered three month period. The predictors, trained from a supervised learning algorithm, were able to correctly classify a large set of data. We evalu- ated them with three performance indicators that gave an information retrieval rate of 71% to 89% and a probability of accurate prediction be- tween 0.7 and 0.8. The results of this work will be particularly helpful for designing an optimal partitioning of the considered heterogeneous plat- form, taking into consideration the real application needs and thus lead- ing to energy savings and performance improvements. Moreover, apart from the novelty of the contribution, the accurate classification scheme offers new insights of users behavior of interest for the design of future HPC platforms. [less ▲]

Cloud Brokering: Current Practices and Upcoming Challenges

in IEEE Cloud Computing (2015), 2(2),

Holistic, Autonomic, and Energy-aware Resource Allocation in Cloud Computing

Doctoral thesis (2014)

Multi-objective evolutionary algorithms for energy-aware scheduling on distributed computing systems

in Applied Soft Computing (2014), 24

The ongoing increase of energy consumption by IT infrastructures forces data center managers to find innovative ways to improve energy efficiency. The latter is also a focal point for different branches ... [more ▼]

The ongoing increase of energy consumption by IT infrastructures forces data center managers to find innovative ways to improve energy efficiency. The latter is also a focal point for different branches of computer science due to its financial, ecological, political, and technical consequences. One of the answers is given by scheduling combined with dynamic voltage scaling technique to optimize the energy consumption. The way of reasoning is based on the link between current semiconductor technologies and energy state management of processors, where sacrificing the performance can save energy. This paper is devoted to investigate and solve the multi-objective precedence constrained application scheduling problem on a distributed computing system, and it has two main aims: the creation of general algorithms to solve the problem and the examination of the problem by means of the thorough analysis of the results returned by the algorithms. The first aim was achieved in two steps: adaptation of state-of-the-art multi-objective evolutionary algorithms by designing new operators and their validation in terms of performance and energy. The second aim was accomplished by performing an extensive number of algorithms executions on a large and diverse benchmark and the further analysis of performance among the proposed algorithms. Finally, the study proves the validity of the proposed method, points out the best-compared multi-objective algorithm schema, and the most important factors for the algorithms performance. [less ▲]

A Holistic Model of the Performance and the Energy-Efficiency of Hypervisors in an HPC Environment

in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (2014)

System Design and Implementation Decisions for ParaMoise Organizational Model

in Proceedings of the 2013 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (2013, September)

A Holistic Model for Resource Representation in Virtualized Cloud Computing Data Centers

in IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology, Bristol, UK, 2013 (2013)