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Towards Elastic Operating Systems

Authors: 

Amit Gupta, Ehab Ababneh, Richard Han, and Eric Keller, University of Colorado, Boulder

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.

Amit Gupta, University of Colorado, Boulder

Ehab Ababneh, University of Colorado, Boulder

Richard Han, University of Colorado at Boulder

Eric Keller, University of Colorado, Boulder

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BibTeX
@inproceedings {181956,
author = {Amit Gupta and Ehab Ababneh and Richard Han and Eric Keller},
title = {Towards Elastic Operating Systems},
booktitle = {14th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS XIV)},
year = {2013},
address = {Santa Ana Pueblo, NM},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotos13/session/gupta},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = may,
}
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