软件即服务云平台性能与能耗的平衡优化策略分析.docxVIP

Abstract With rapid development and widespread applications of cloud computing over recent years, not only the quantity but also the scale of datacenters worldwide have increased dra? matically. However, this also incurs skyrocketing power consumptions of such large-scale datacenters, which consist of massive farms of servers and abundant computing availability. Under the global context of severe energy starvation and adverse environmental impact, the issue of how to balance the power-performance tradeoff of datacenters hosting diverse applications has drawn substantial attention from governments, industries as well as academia. An analytical framework is presented for characterizing and optimizing the powerperformance tradeoff in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) cloud platfonns. The objectives are two-fold: (1) Maximizing the operating revenue when serving heterogeneous SaaS applications with unpredictable user requests, and (2) Minimizing the power consumption when processing user requests. To achieve these objectives, a unified profit-maximizing objective is constructed to jointly consider revenue and cost in an economic view. An offline solution to maximize the supreme bound of the objective is first developed, in order to (1) justify the validity of our theoretical model, and (2) establish a benchmark to examine the effective- ness of other control solutions. As a highlight of our contributions, we take advantage of Lyapunov Optimization techniques to design and analyze an optimal yet practical control framework, which makes online decisions on request admission control, routing, and virtual machine (VMs) scheduling ? The proposed online control framework can be extended to accommodate a variety of design choices and operational requirements in a datacenter. Specifically, buffering facilities can be introduced to alleviate the bursty admitted requests and to improve the robustness of the system, and a power budget can be enforced to improve the datacenter perfor