Heracles: Improving Resource Efficiency at Scale

Heracles: Improving Resource Efficiency at Scale - Lo et al. 2015 Until recently, scaling from Moore’s law provided higher compute per dollar with every server generation, allowing datacenters to scale without raising the cost. However, with several imminent challenges in technology scaling, alternate approaches are needed. Those approaches involve increasing server utilization, which is still ... Continue Reading

Cross-layer scheduling in cloud systems

Cross-layer scheduling in cloud systems - Alkaff et al. 2015 This paper was presented last month at the 2015 International Conference on Cloud Engineering, and explores what happens when you coordinate application scheduling with network route allocation via SDN (hence: cross-layer scheduling). With clusters of 30 nodes, the authors demonstrate results that can improve the ... Continue Reading