ashish gupta project with bin lin. overview our goal –introduce resource borrowing and its...

Ashish Gupta

Project with Bin Lin

Overview

• The problem and our approach

• Applications

• Some Issues and Results

Our Goal

Unused Resources

The Problem

Performance Slowdown

Effect of performance slowdown

Effect of performance slowdown

Effect of performance slowdown

How can we find this out ?

Actually test it !

How can we find this out ?

1Measure existing load

How can we find this out ?

Emulate Resource Borrowing

Real load

Borrowed LoadFinal Load

2 % CPU Usage vs. Time

How can we find this out ?

Allow User Feedback

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How can we find this out ?

Find MAX Level

Borrowed Load

Final Load4

MAX

% CPU Usage vs. Time

How is it useful ?

Comfort = f (…)

How is it useful ?

Workstation Sharing

How is it useful ?

• Interactivity Aware Scheduling

Interactive

Some questions and issues

• Finding a mean level which irritates 90% of the users ?

CPU Resource Scattergraph

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User Feedbacks

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Context Person Hardware

Others ?

Context Person Hardware

Others ?

Context Person Hardware

Others ?

Context Person Hardware

Others ?

Frog in the Pot Hypothesis

% Resource Load vs. Time

Preliminary Results

Dependence On Context

Dependence on Context for CPU Contention

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Word Powerpoint IE Quake

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Frog in the Pot

Studying Frog in the Pot Hypothesis

4%

96%

Below the Step

Above the Step

% Resource Load vs. Time

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Person Effects

Power Users Typical Users Beginners

Effect of Users

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User Type

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Conclusion

Comfort = f (…)

Work on applications

Study of factors

Questions and Answers

• Other types of irritation

• Bursty natures of Desktop Computing, bursts indicate sudden action-response tasks

• Large number of factors for irritation

Context Person Hardware

Others ?

Time

Load

Understanding Testcases

CPU

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Ramp Step

Testcase Transfer

Results Transfer

Server

Client

Resource borrowing using testcase profile

An irritating Interface

Interactive Computation

Bursty Nature of Interactive Computation

Understanding Testcases

CPU

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MEM

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Ramp Step

Combination of Resources

• CPU Usage• Memory Usage• Hard Disk activity• Network Traffic

Comfort Zone surface

Combination of Resources

• CPU Usage• Memory Usage• Hard Disk activity• Network Traffic

• Feedback key photo

• Explain the background running process and feedback

• Put real scatter graph