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Colocating tasks in data centers using a side-effects performance model
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In data centers, many tasks (services, virtual machines or computational jobs) share a single physical machine. We explore a new resource management model for such colocation. Our model uses two parameters of a task its size and its type to characterize how a task influences the performance of the other tasks allocated on the same machine. As typically a data center hosts many similar, recurring tasks (e.g. a webserver, a database, a CPU-intensive computation), the resource manager should be able to construct these types and their performance interactions. In particular, we minimize the total cost in a model in which each task's cost is a function of the total sizes of tasks allocated on the same machine (each type is counted separately). We show that for a linear cost function the problem is strongly NP-hard, but polynomially-solvable in some particular cases. We propose an algorithm polynomial in the number of tasks (but exponential in the number of types and machines) and another algorithm polynomial in the number of tasks and machines (but exponential in the number of types and admissible sizes of tasks). We also propose a polynomial time approximation algorithm, and, in the case of a single type, a polynomial time exact algorithm. For convex costs, we prove that, even for a single type, the problem becomes NP-hard, and we propose an approximation algorithm. We experimentally verify our algorithms on instances derived from a real-world data center trace. Mile the exact algorithms are infeasible for large instances, the approximations and heuristics deliver reasonable performance. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Keywords:
Scheduling
Combinatorial optimization
Data center
Heterogeneity
Colocation
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