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Towards autonomic management for Cloud services based upon volunteered resources

Caton, Simon and Rana, Omer Farooq ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3597-2646 2012. Towards autonomic management for Cloud services based upon volunteered resources. Concurrency and Computation 24 (9) , pp. 992-1014. 10.1002/cpe.1715

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Abstract

Many research institutions and Universities own computational capacity that is not effectively utilized, thereby providing an opportunity for such institutions to use such capacity to offer Cloud services (to both internal and external users). However, the unreliability and unpredictability of these resources mean that their use in the context of a Service Level Agreement (SLA) is high risk, leading to a reduction in reputation as well as economic penalties in case of SLA violation. We propose a methodology that addresses the issues of unreliability and unpredictability such that Cloud software services could be hosted upon volunteered resources. To enable the harnessing of these resources we rely on autonomic fault management techniques that allow such systems to independently adapt the resources they use based upon their perception of individual resource reliability. Using our approach we were able to scale out the backend infrastructure of the Cloud service elastically (min 30thinspaces per worker), opportunistically and autonomically. We address two key questions in this article: can a campus volunteer infrastructure be used in Cloud provisioning? What measures are necessary in order to ensure reliability at the resource level?

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Computer Science & Informatics
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Uncontrolled Keywords: volunteer Cloud computing; autonomic fault management; Matlab; Condor
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISSN: 1532-0626
Last Modified: 24 Oct 2022 10:33
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/44819

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