Paper Info
Title
Model-driven consolidation of Java workloads on multicores
Abstract
Optimal resource allocation and application consolidation on modern multicore systems that host multiple applications is not easy. Striking a balance among conflicting targets such as maximizing system throughput and system utilization while minimizing application response times is a quandary for system administrators. The purpose of this work is to offer a methodology that can automate the difficult process of identifying how to best consolidate workloads in a multicore environment. We develop a simple approach that treats the hardware and the operating system as a black box and uses measurements to profile the application resource demands. The demands become input to a queueing network model that successfully predicts application scalability and that captures the performance impact of consolidated applications on shared on-chip and off-chip resources. Extensive analysis with the widely used DaCapo Java benchmarks on an IBM Power 7 system illustrates the model's ability to accurately predict the system's optimal application mix.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/DSN.2012.6263928
DSN
Keywords
Field
DocType
Java,multiprocessing systems,operating systems (computers),queueing theory,resource allocation,DaCapo Java benchmarks,IBM Power 7 system,Java workloads,application consolidation,application resource demands,application response time minimization,application scalability,model-driven consolidation,multicore systems,off-chip resources,operating system,optimal resource allocation,queueing network model,shared on-chip resources,system optimal application mix,system throughput maximization,system utilization maximization,Java,application consolidation,multicores,performance modeling,queueing networks
Black box (phreaking),IBM,Computer science,Real-time computing,Resource allocation,Queueing theory,Throughput,Java,Multi-core processor,Scalability,Distributed computing
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1530-0889
13
0.64
References 
Authors
26
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Danilo Ansaloni129623.78
Lydia Y. Chen243252.24
Evgenia Smirni31857161.97
Walter Binder4107792.58