Making elastic cloud computing a reality

Grazed from UNSW.edu.au. Author: Editorial Staff.

UNSW researchers are using artificial intelligence to create a computer network capable of regulating its own consumption of public cloud services. The team, led by School of Computer Science and Engineering Lecturer Srikumar Venugopal, hopes the research will make truly elastic cloud computing a reality.

Elasticity is seen as a key benefit of the cloud, allowing companies to automatically and immediately dial up or down the consumption of cloud computing power based on need. The idea is to prevent companies over- or under-provisioning resources to run a particular workload. Presently, companies set rules to manage when to spin-up new virtual servers or shut them down. Systems administrators use their experience and historical data to set the rules…

In the future, researchers like Venugopal hope those decisions can be made in an autonomic fashion by the computer network. His research team has built a software controller that incorporates a simplified version of reinforcement learning, a well-known artificial intelligence method more commonly associated with robotics than IT. Under the proposed model, every virtual server instance in the cloud would have its own controller that monitored the performance of applications hosted on the server…

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