Friendly Virtual Machines: Leveraging a Feedback-Control Model for Application Adaptation

October 15, 2006

The Research in Computer Science Seminar Presents: Friendly Virtual Machines: Leveraging a Feedback-Control Model for Application Adaptation by Yuting Zhang

Abstract

With the increasing use of Virtual Machines (VMs) as vehicles to isolate applications running on the same host, more challenges are faced by the resource managers for systems that are shared by multiple VMs. In this talk, I will give a brief overview of a system-level virtual machine. I will also introduce our Friendly VM (FVM) framework that enables multiple VMs to share underlying resources both fairly and efficiently by leveraging feedback about resource usage and availability. Such properties are ensured using one of many provably convergent control rules, such as Additive-Increase/Multiplicative Decrease (AIMD). Finally, I will present a prototype FVM implementation and some experimental results. We will examine potential research topics at the end of the talk

Location: Campus Center 206
Date: Friday, October 20, 2006
Time: 12:15 - 1:15

All are welcome to attend!