Resource management for global public computing: many policies are better than (n)one

  • Authors:
  • Evangelos Kotsovinos;Iulia Ion;Tim Harris

  • Affiliations:
  • Deutsche Telekom Laboratoriesc;International University in Germany;Microsoft Research Cambridge

  • Venue:
  • WORLDS'06 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on USENIX Workshop on Real, Large Distributed Systems - Volume 3
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The federation of authority in global public computing systems poses major resource management challenges, as different stakeholders may have different views on how server resources are to be apportioned. Ultimately, the complexity of declaring and managing potentially overlapping federated policies often leads to the absence of high-level resource management systems from global public computing platforms. In this paper we propose a practical system that allows the different stakeholders to independently express federated policies, provides mechanisms for resolving potential constraint overlaps automatically, and reaches decentralised resource allocation decisions. We demonstrate experimentally that the system scales gracefully, introduces only a very low performance overhead, and is suitable for operating in realistically large and complex settings.