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2011 31st International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Correlated Resource Models of Internet End Hosts
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
June 20-June 24
ISBN: 978-0-7695-4364-2
Understanding and modelling resources of Internet end hosts is essential for the design of desktop software and Internet-distributed applications. In this paper we develop a correlated resource model of Internet end hosts based on real trace data taken from the SETI@home project. This data covers a 5-year period with statistics for 2.7 million hosts. The resource model is based on statistical analysis of host computational power, memory, and storage as well as how these resources change over time and the correlations between them. We find that resources with few discrete values (core count, memory) are well modeled by exponential laws governing the change of relative resource quantities over time. Resources with a continuous range of values are well modeled with either correlated normal distributions (processor speed for integer operations and floating point operations) or log-normal distributions (available disk space). We validate and show the utility of the models by applying them to a resource allocation problem for Internet-distributed applications, and demonstrate their value over other models. We also make our trace data and tool for automatically generating realistic Internet end hosts publicly available.
Index Terms:
resource model, host model, Internet end host, resource scheduling, Internet computing, volunteer computing
Citation:
Eric M. Heien, Derrick Kondo, David P. Anderson, "Correlated Resource Models of Internet End Hosts," icdcs, pp.278-287, 2011 31st International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, 2011
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