Contention-Aware Scheduling in Cloud Data Centres

该项目旨在设计、实施和集成解决方案，以提高私有云数据中心（CDC）的资源利用率。CDC预计将保证性能，同时以最低成本优化资源使用。这带来了必须解决的技术挑战，以有效地提供具有特定性能要求的按需资源。该项目旨在将当前技术和本项目中设计的技术的适用性推向行业规模的CDC，并确定指标和变量，以全面控制托管应用程序的服务级别协议。具有行业认可的软件插件的可扩展解决方案是该项目的主要成果。该项目的成果将对当今高度计算机化的社会的环境（降低能源消耗以实现更绿色的基础设施）和经济可持续性（降低用户和提供商的云使用成本）产生重大影响。

This project aims to design, implement, and integrate solutions to improve resource use of private cloud data centres (CDCs). CDCs are expected to guarantee performance while optimising resource usage at a minimum cost. This incurs technical challenges that must be tackled to efficiently provision on-demand resources with specific performance requirements. The project intends to push the applicability of both current techniques and the ones to be designed in this project to industry-scale CDCs, and identify metrics and variables to holistically control service-level agreements of hosted applications. Scalable solutions with industry approved software plug-ins are the major outcomes of this project. The outcomes of this project will have a substantial impact on both environmental (lowering energy consumption to lead to greener infrastructure) and economic sustainability (reducing cloud usage cost for both users and providers) of today’s much computerised society.