Research on power-efficient cloud infrastructure with advanced memory management

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23680002
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Software
• Research Institution: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
• Principal Investigator: KAWAI Eiji 独立行政法人情報通信研究機構, テストベッド研究開発推進センターテストベッド研究開発室, 室長 (40362842)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 省エネルギー / 情報システム / オペレーティングシステム / メモリ管理 / クラウドコンピューティング

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The goal of this research is to develop optimization mechanisms in resource management for large-scale, virtualized, and highly-complicated information systems. Especially, we focused on resource management mechanisms for memory and networks, in contrast to the conventional ones for processors. We developed a memory management mechanism for virtual host environments and application-oriented network management mechanisms for widely distributed systems which use SDN (Software-Defined Networking) technologies. Those developed mechanisms were proved to achieve performance improvement in use-cases: an SDN-enhanced job management system for cluster computing and an SDN-enhanced TDW (Tiled Display Wall) system deployed on wide area networks.

Free Research Field

ICT基盤技術