Resource management technology using SDN



We have been promoting research and development on resource management technology that treats processor, storage and network resources comprehensively, by regarding the interconnect of cluster system as dynamically controllable resource.

 

In particular, this study introduces Software Defined Networking (SDN), a newly-emerged networking concept into Job Management System(JMS). By taking advantage of network programmability brought by SDN, we aim to realize a novel resource management technology that provides the optimal combination of network and computational resources for user’s job request for higher computational throughput.

 

This reearch has been promoted with NICT researchers and partly supported by the collaborative
research of the National Institute of Information and Communication Technology and Osaka University (Research on high functional network platform technology for large-scale distributed computing).

 

Research achievement：

  • Yasuhiro Watashiba, Susumu Date, Hirotake Abe, Yoshiyuki Kido, Kohei Ichikawa, Hiroaki Yamanaka, Eiji Kawai, Shinji Shimojo, and Haruo Takemura, “Efficacy Analysis of a SDN-enhanced Resource Management System through NAS Parallel Benchmarks”, The Review of Socionetwork Strategies, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 69-84, Dec. 2014.
  • Yasuhiro Watashiba, Susumu Date, Hirotake Abe, Yoshiyuki Kido, Kohei Ichikawa, Hiroaki Yamanaka, Eiji Kawai, Shinji Shimojo, and Haruo Takemura, “Performance Characteristics of an SDN-enhanced Job Management System for Cluster Systems with Fat-tree Interconnect”, Emerging Issues in Cloud (EIC) Workshop, The 6th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2014), pp. 781-786, Singapore, Dec. 2014. (DOI:10.1109/CloudCom.2014.82)
  • Yasuhiro Watashiba, Yoshiyuki Kido, Susumu Date, Hirotake Abe, Kohei Ichikawa,　Hiroaki Yamanaka, Eiji Kawai, Haruo Takemura, “A Job Management Framework Enabling Deployment of Allocation Policy　Regarding Computational and Network Resources”, IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems, vol. J97-D, No. 6, pp. 1082-1093, Jun. 2014.　(written in Japanese)

Related graduation thesis:

  • Yasuhiro Watashiba, “A Study on Job Management System Capable of Dynamically Allocating Network Resources”, PhD dissertation, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology Osaka University, Jan. 2015. (written in Japanese)

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