Application interference analysis: Towards energy-efficient workload management on heterogeneous micro-server architectures

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Abstract

The ever increasing demand for Internet traffic, storage and processing requires an ever increasing amount of hardware resources. In addition to this, infrastructure providers over-provision system architectures to serve users at peak times without performance delays. Over-provisioning leads to underutilization and thus to unnecessary power consumption. Therefore, there is a need for workload management strategies to map and schedule different services simultaneously in an energy-efficient manner without compromising performance, specially for heterogeneous micro-server architectures. This requires statistical models of how services interfere with each other, thereby affecting both performance and energy consumption. Indeed, the performance-energy behavior when mixing workloads is not well understood. This paper presents an interference analysis for heterogeneous workloads (i.e., CPU- and memory-intensive) on a big.LITTLE MPSoC architecture. We employ state-of-the-art tools to generate multiple single-application mappings and characterize the interference among two different services. We observed a performance degradation factor between 1.1 and 2.5. For some configurations, executing on different clusters resulted in reduced energy consumption with no performance penalty. This kind of detailed analysis give us first insights towards more general models for future workload management systems.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFOCOM WKSHPS 2017
PublisherIEEE, New York [u. a.]
Pages432-437
Number of pages6
ISBN (electronic)9781538627846
Publication statusPublished - 20 Nov 2017
Peer-reviewedYes

Workshop

TitleIEEE INFOCOM 2017 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops
Abbreviated titleIEEE INFOCOM WKSHPS 2017
Duration1 - 4 May 2017
CityAtlanta
CountryUnited States of America

External IDs

ORCID /0000-0002-5007-445X/work/141545553

Keywords

Research priority areas of TU Dresden

Sustainable Development Goals

Keywords

  • Energy-efficient computing, Heterogeneous, Interference, Mapping, MPSoCs, Scheduling