Adaptive sliding windows for improved estimation of data center resource utilization

Accurate prediction of data center resource utilization is required for capacity planning, job scheduling, energy saving, workload placement, and load balancing to utilize the resources efficiently. However, accurately predicting those resources is challenging due to dynamic workloads, heterogeneous...

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Autores: Baig, Shuja-ur-Rehman, Iqbal, Waheed, Berral García, Josep Lluís|||0000-0003-3037-3580, Carrera Pérez, David|||0000-0003-4898-3424
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/186459
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/186459
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2019.10.026
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Cloud computing
Data processing service centers
Machine learning
Resource allocation
Sliding windows
Adaptive observation window
Time series
Resource estimation
Data center
Computació en núvol
Centres informàtics
Aprenentatge automàtic
Assignació de recursos
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Arquitectura de computadors
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Sumario:Accurate prediction of data center resource utilization is required for capacity planning, job scheduling, energy saving, workload placement, and load balancing to utilize the resources efficiently. However, accurately predicting those resources is challenging due to dynamic workloads, heterogeneous infrastructures, and multi-tenant co-hosted applications. Existing prediction methods use fixed size observation windows which cannot produce accurate results because of not being adaptively adjusted to capture local trends in the most recent data. Therefore, those methods train on large fixed sliding windows using an irrelevant large number of observations yielding to inaccurate estimations or fall for inaccuracy due to degradation of estimations with short windows on quick changing trends. In this paper we propose a deep learning-based adaptive window size selection method, dynamically limiting the sliding window size to capture the trend for the latest resource utilization, then build an estimation model for each trend period. We evaluate the proposed method against multiple baseline and state-of-the-art methods, using real data-center workload data sets. The experimental evaluation shows that the proposed solution outperforms those state-of-the-art approaches and yields 16 to 54% improved prediction accuracy compared to the baseline methods.