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Charles C. Miers

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The Impact of Process Competition on Energy Consumption: Analysis and Modeling

With the development of distributed systems, the need to manage the sharing of machines among multiple simultaneous users arises. In the cloud computing context, the instantiation of virtual machines and containers by different users utilizing the same infrastructure leads to a dispute for physical computational resources. In this regard, this paper analyses a process's energy consumption as a function of the competition for computational resources it encounters. Investigating this behavior is fundamental for many applications, such as pricing in cloud computing services, and for task scheduling and load balancing, while increasing energy efficiency. To determine this behavior, experiments were conducted and resulted in a dependency on the number of processor cores of the physical machine hosting the process. As the number of cores increases, the process's energy consumption as a function of the competition it faces transitions from linear to a root function.

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Network-Aware Container Scheduling in Multi-Tenant Data Center

Network management on multi-tenant container-based data centers has critical impact on performance. Tenants encapsulate applications in containers abstracting away details on hosting infrastructures, and entrust data centers management framework with the provisioning of network QoS requirements. In this paper, we propose a network-aware multi-criteria container scheduler to jointly process containers and network requirements. We introduce a new Mixed Integer Linear Programming formulation for network-aware scheduling encompassing both tenants and providers metrics. We describe two GPU-accelerated modules to address the complexity barrier of the problem and efficiently process scheduling requests. Our experiments show that our scheduling approach accounting for both network and containers outperforms traditional algorithms used by containers orchestrators.

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