Towards elastic operating systems

Amit Gupta; Ehab Ababneh; Richard Han; Eric Keller

Towards elastic operating systems

Amit Gupta, Ehab Ababneh, Richard Han, Eric Keller

School of Computing

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Abstract

Realizing elasticity in cloud applications today is often a cumbersome process, requiring applications to integrate with services like elastic load balancers and/or be rewritten to accommodate distributed frameworks like map/reduce or cluster-based operating systems. In this paper, we introduce the concept of ElasticOS, which enables a process (or even a single thread) to stretch its associated resource boundaries across multiple machines automatically, expanding and contracting on demand without requiring the application to be re-designed or configured with a complex combination of additional tools and frameworks. Our initial implementation within Linux 3.2 and a study of a MySQL execution trace provide hope that the ElasticOS vision is achievable.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	14th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems
Publisher	USENIX Association
Number of pages	6
Publication status	Published - 2013
Event	14th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems, HotOS XIV - Santa Ana Pueblo, United States Duration: 13 May 2013 → 15 May 2013

Workshop

Workshop	14th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems, HotOS XIV
Country/Territory	United States
City	Santa Ana Pueblo
Period	13/05/13 → 15/05/13

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