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University of Massachusetts Amherst

Theses/Dissertations

2016

Resource management

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Elastic Resource Management In Distributed Clouds, Tian Guo Nov 2016

Elastic Resource Management In Distributed Clouds, Tian Guo

Doctoral Dissertations

The ubiquitous nature of computing devices and their increasing reliance on remote resources have driven and shaped public cloud platforms into unprecedented large-scale, distributed data centers. Concurrently, a plethora of cloud-based applications are experiencing multi-dimensional workload dynamics---workload volumes that vary along both time and space axes and with higher frequency. The interplay of diverse workload characteristics and distributed clouds raises several key challenges for efficiently and dynamically managing server resources. First, current cloud platforms impose certain restrictions that might hinder some resource management tasks. Second, an application-agnostic approach might not entail appropriate performance goals, therefore, requires numerous specific methods. Third, …


Specification And Analysis Of Resource Utilization Policies For Human-Intensive Systems, Seung Yeob Shin Nov 2016

Specification And Analysis Of Resource Utilization Policies For Human-Intensive Systems, Seung Yeob Shin

Doctoral Dissertations

Contemporary systems often require the effective support of many types of resources, each governed by complex utilization policies. Sound management of these resources plays a key role in assuring that these systems achieve their key goals. To help system developers make sound resource management decisions, I provide a resource utilization policy specification and analysis framework for (1) specifying very diverse kinds of resources and their potentially complex resource utilization policies, (2) dynamically evaluating the policies’ effects on the outcomes achieved by systems utilizing the resources, and (3) formally verifying various kinds of properties of these systems. Resource utilization policies range …