Today's Internet datacenters run many complex and large-scale Web applications that are very difficult to manage. The main challenges are understanding user workloads and application performance, and quickly identifying and resolving performance problems. Statistical Machine Learning (SML) provides a methodology for quickly processing the large quantities of monitoring data generated by these applications, finding repeating patterns in their behavior, and building accurate models of their performance.
This dissertation argues that SML is a useful tool for simplifying and automating datacenter operations and demonstrates application of SML to three important problems in this area: characterization and synthesis of workload spikes, dynamic resource allocation in stateful systems, and quick and accurate identification of recurring performance problems.
Title
Automating Datacenter Operations Using Machine Learning
Published
2010-08-16
Full Collection Name
Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences Technical Reports
Other Identifiers
EECS-2010-114
Type
Text
Extent
109 p
Archive
The Engineering Library
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