Using automatically derived load thresholds to manage compute resources on-demand

2005 9th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, IM 2005

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 747-760

  Appleby, Karen ^a   Goldszmidt, Germán ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Load; Problem determination; Server allocation; Thresholds

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SERVERS;

LOADS; PROBLEM DETERMINATION; SERVER ALLOCATION; THRESHOLDS;

RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

EID: 33744471925     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INM.2005.1440848     Document Type: Conference Paper

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