Title
HUNTER: AI based holistic resource management for sustainable cloud computing
Abstract
The worldwide adoption of cloud data centers (CDCs) has given rise to the ubiquitous demand for hosting application services on the cloud. Further, contemporary data-intensive industries have seen a sharp upsurge in the resource requirements of modern applications. This has led to the provisioning of an increased number of cloud servers, giving rise to higher energy consumption and, consequently, sustainability concerns. Traditional heuristics and reinforcement learning based algorithms for energy-efficient cloud resource management address the scalability and adaptability related challenges to a limited extent. Existing work often fails to capture dependencies across thermal characteristics of hosts, resource consumption of tasks and the corresponding scheduling decisions. This leads to poor scalability and an increase in the compute resource requirements, particularly in environments with non-stationary resource demands. To address these limitations, we propose an artificial intelligence (AI) based holistic resource management technique for sustainable cloud computing called HUNTER. The proposed model formulates the goal of optimizing energy efficiency in data centers as a multi-objective scheduling problem, considering three important models: energy, thermal and cooling. HUNTER utilizes a Gated Graph Convolution Network as a surrogate model for approximating the Quality of Service (QoS) for a system state and generating optimal scheduling decisions. Experiments on simulated and physical cloud environments using the CloudSim toolkit and the COSCO framework show that HUNTER outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in terms of energy consumption, SLA violation, scheduling time, cost and temperature by up to 12, 35, 43, 54 and 3 percent respectively.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1016/j.jss.2021.111124
Journal of Systems and Software
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Holistic resource management,Energy-efficiency,Cloud computing,Artificial intelligence,Thermal management
Journal
184
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0164-1212
1
0.35
References 
Authors
23
11
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shreshth Tuli111.02
Sukhpal Singh Gill211713.77
Minxian Xu315211.32
Peter Garraghan432421.45
Rami Bahsoon553460.22
Scharam Dustdar610.35
Rizos Sakellariou71679129.85
Omer F. Rana82181229.52
Rajkumar Buyya9232081340.23
Giuliano Casale10121390.40
Nicholas R. Jennings11193481564.35