Modeling virtualized applications using machine learning techniques

VEE'12 - Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3-14

  Kundu, Sajib ^a   Rangaswami, Raju ^a   Gulati, Ajay ^b   Zhao, Ming ^a   Dutta, Kaushik ^c  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VMWARE INC   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

cloud data centers; machine learning; performance modeling; virtualization; VM sizing

Indexed keywords

CLOUD DATA; MACHINE-LEARNING; PERFORMANCE MODELING; VIRTUALIZATIONS; VM SIZING;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 84858761133     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2151024.2151028     Document Type: Conference Paper

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