A resource usage prediction-based energy-aware scheduling algorithm for instance-intensive cloud workflows

Abstract

The applications of instance-intensive workflow are widely used in e-commerce, advanced manufacturing, etc. However, existing studies normally do not consider the problem of reducing energy consumption by utilizing the characters of instance-intensive workflow applications. This paper presents a resource usage Prediction-based Energy-Aware scheduling algorithm, named PEA. Technically, this method improves the energy efficiency of instance-intensive cloud workflow by predicting resources utilization and the strategies of batch processing and load balancing. The efficiency and effectiveness of the proposed algorithm are validated by extensive experiments.