[infinispan-dev] Auto Scaling for Infinispan

[Paolo Romano]

...and now with attachment! ;-)

     P

On 12/4/11 1:37 PM, Paolo Romano wrote:
> Hi,
>
> one more result from the Cloud-TM project that we thought might be 
> interesting for the Infinispan community (and possibly OpenShift).
>
> Our last effort is a system for automating elastic scaling for 
> Infinispan, which we named TAS: Transactional Auto Scaler.
>
> TAS uses a hybrid methodology combining analytical modelling, for 
> forecasting the effects of data contention, and machine learning 
> techniques (we experimented both with Radial Basis Functions 
> Aritificial Neural Networks and Regression Decision Trees), for 
> forecasting the effects of contention on hardware resources.
>
> Applications of TAS range from on-line self-optimization of 
> in-production applications, to the automatic generation of QoS/cost 
> driven elastic scaling policies, and support for what-if analysis on 
> the scalability of transactional applications.
>
> Results look pretty good, probably even better than we were originally 
> hoping! ;-)
>
> Cheers,
>
>     Paolo

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