Utility-Function-Driven Resource Allocation in Autonomic Systems

  • Authors:
  • Gerald Tesauro;William E. Walsh;Jeffrey O. Kephart

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM TJ Watson Research Center;IBM TJ Watson Research Center;IBM TJ Watson Research Center

  • Venue:
  • ICAC '05 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Automatic Computing
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We study autonomic resource allocation among multiple applications based on optimizing the sum of utility for each application. We compare two methodologies for estimating the utility of resources: a queuing-theoretic performance model and model-free reinforcement learning. We evaluate them empirically in a distributed prototype data center and highlight tradeoffs between the two methods.