The autonomic operating system research project: achievements and future directions

  • Authors:
  • Davide B. Bartolini;Riccardo Cattaneo;Gianluca C. Durelli;Martina Maggio;Marco D. Santambrogio;Filippo Sironi

  • Affiliations:
  • Politecnico di Milano;Politecnico di Milano;Politecnico di Milano;Lund University;Politecnico di Milano;Politecnico di Milano

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 50th Annual Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Traditionally, hypervisors, operating systems, and runtime systems have been providing an abstraction layer over the bare-metal hardware. Traditional abstractions, however, do not consider for non-functional requirements such as system-level constraints or users' objectives. As these requirements are gaining increasing importance, researchers are looking into making user-specified and system-level objectives first-class citizens in the computer systems' realm. This paper describes the Autonomic Operating System (AcOS) project; AcOS enhances commodity operating systems with an autonomic layer that enables self-* properties through adaptive resource allocation. With AcOS, we investigate intelligent resource allocation to achieve user-specified service-level objectives on application performance and to respect system-level thresholds on CPU temperature. We give a broad overview of AcOS, elaborate on its achievements, and discuss research perspectives.