Automatic Configuration and Run-time Adaptation of Distributed Applications

Increased platform heterogeneity and varying resource availability in distributed systems motivates the design of resource-aware applications, which ensure a desired performance level by continuously adapting their behavior to changing resource characteristics. In this paper, we describe an application-independent adaptation framework that simplifies the design of resource-aware applications. This framework eliminates the need for adaptation decisions to be explicitly programmed into the application by relying on two novel components: (1) a tunability interface, which exposes adaptation choices in the form of alternate application configurations while encapsulating core application functionality; and (2) a virtual execution environment, which emulates application execution under diverse resource availability enabling off-line collection of information about resulting behavior. Together, these components permit automatic run-time decisions on when to adapt by continuously monitoring re...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: HPDC
• Authors: Fangzhe Chang, Vijay Karamcheti
• Keywords: Application Configuration, Application-independent Adaptation Framework, Distributed And Parallel Computing, HPDC 2000, Resource-aware Applications