• Adaptive MapReduce scheduling in shared environments 

      Polo Bardés, Jordà; Becerra Fontal, Yolanda; Carrera Pérez, David; Torres Viñals, Jordi; Ayguadé Parra, Eduard; Steinder, Malgorzata (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014)
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      In this paper we present a MapReduce task scheduler for shared environments in which MapReduce is executed along with other resource-consuming workloads, such as transactional applications. All workloads may potentially ...
    • DRMaestro: orchestrating disaggregated resources on virtualized data-centers 

      Carneiro do Amaral, Marcelo; Polo Bardés, Jorda; Carrera Pérez, David; González, Nelson; Yang, Chih-Chieh; Morari, Alessandro; D'Amora, Bruce; Youssef, Alaa; Steinder, Malgorzata (Springer, 2021-03-06)
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      Modern applications demand resources at an unprecedented level. In this sense, data-centers are required to scale efficiently to cope with such demand. Resource disaggregation has the potential to improve resource-efficiency ...
    • Enabling distributed key-value stores with low latency-impact snapshot support 

      Polo Bardés, Jordà; Becerra Fontal, Yolanda; Carrera Pérez, David; Torres Viñals, Jordi; Ayguadé Parra, Eduard; Spreitzer, Mike; Steinder, Malgorzata (2013)
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      Current distributed key-value stores generally provide greater scalability at the expense of weaker consistency and isolation. However, additional isolation support is becoming increasingly important in the environments ...
    • Enabling resource sharing between transactional and batch workloads using dynamic application placement 

      Carrera Pérez, David; Steinder, Malgorzata; Whalley, Ian; Torres Viñals, Jordi; Ayguadé Parra, Eduard (Springer, 2008)
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      We present a technique that enables existing middleware to fairly manage mixed workloads: batch jobs and transactional applications. The technique leverages a generic application placement controller, which dynamically ...
    • Enabling resource sharing between transactional and batch workloads using dynamic application placement 

      Carrera Pérez, David; Steinder, Malgorzata; Whalley, Ian; Torres Viñals, Jordi; Ayguadé Parra, Eduard (2008-12)
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      We present a technique that enables existing middleware to fairly manage mixed workloads: batch jobs and transactional applications. The technique leverages a generic application placement controller, which dynamically ...
    • Managing SLAs of heterogeneous workloads using dynamic application placement 

      Carrera Pérez, David; Steinder, Malgorzata; Whalley, Ian; Torres Viñals, Jordi; Ayguadé Parra, Eduard (ACM Press, NY, 2008)
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      In this paper we address the problem of managing heterogeneous workloads in a virtualized data center. We consider two different workloads: transactional applications and long-running jobs. We present a technique that ...
    • Performance evaluation of microservices architectures using containers 

      Amaral, Marcelo; Polo Bardés, Jordà; Carrera Pérez, David; Mohomed, Iqbal; Unuvar, Merve; Steinder, Malgorzata (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015)
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      Microservices architecture has started a new trend for application development for a number of reasons: (1) to reduce complexity by using tiny services; (2) to scale, remove and deploy parts of the system easily; (3) to ...
    • Topology-aware GPU scheduling for learning workloads in cloud environments 

      Amaral, Marcelo; Polo Bardés, Jordà; Carrera, David; Seelam, Seetharami; Steinder, Malgorzata (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2017-11)
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      Recent advances in hardware, such as systems with multiple GPUs and their availability in the cloud, are enabling deep learning in various domains including health care, autonomous vehicles, and Internet of Things. Multi-GPU ...
    • Utitily-based placement of dynamic Web applications with fairness goals 

      Carrera Pérez, David; Steinder, Malgorzata; Whalley, Ian; Torres Viñals, Jordi; Ayguadé Parra, Eduard (2008)
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      We study the problem of dynamic resource allocation to clustered Web applications. We extend application server middleware with the ability to automatically decide the size of application clusters and their placement on ...