Optimization issues in distributed computing systems design

Krzysztof Walkowiak; Jacek Rak

Optimization issues in distributed computing systems design

Abstract

In recent years, we observe a growing interest focused on distributed computing systems. Both industry and academia require increasing computational power to process and analyze large amount of data, including significant areas like analysis of medical data, earthquake, or weather forecast. Since distributed computing systems – similar to computer networks – are vulnerable to failures, survivability mechanisms are indispensable to provide the uninterrupted service. Therefore, in this paper we propose a novel 1 + 1 protection mechanism. We formulate an ILP model related to optimization of survivable distributed computing systems. The objective is to allocate computational tasks to computing nodes and dimension network capacity in order to minimize the operational cost of the computing system and satisfy survivability constraints. To facilitate high computational complexity caused by NP-completeness in solving the ILP problem, we propose additional cut inequalities that can be applied for the branch-and-cut algorithm.We consider the cut-and-branch variant of the B&C algorithm. To construct additional cut inequalities we use the idea of cover inequalities and mixed integer rounding (MIR) inequalities. Results of experiments conducted using CPLEX solver are provided and discussed.

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Krzysztof Walkowiak
- Politechnika wrocławska .
Jacek Rak dr hab. inż.

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Category:: Monographic publication
Type:: rozdział, artykuł w książce - dziele zbiorowym /podręczniku w języku o zasięgu międzynarodowym
Title of issue:: Modeling, Simulation and Optimization of Complex Processes - HPSC 2012 strony 261 - 272
Language:: English
Publication year:: 2014
Bibliographic description:: Walkowiak ., Rak J.: Optimization issues in distributed computing systems design// Modeling, Simulation and Optimization of Complex Processes - HPSC 2012/ ed. Bock, H.G., Hoang, X.P., Rannacher, R., Schlöder, J. Dordrecht: Springer, 2014, s.261-272
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