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Comment: No literature review? (Score 2) 26   + - Stanford
Researchers Improve Efficiency of Cloud Computing  Submitted by
tabate tabate (3593817) writes "Stanford researchers Christina
Delimitrou and Christos Kozyrakis have developed a cluster
management system called Quasar that significantly boosts
datacenter utilization. Current utilization is notoriously low,
primarily because users that submit applications to these
systems are extremely conservative when it comes to reserving
resources, often overprovisioning reservations by an order of
magnitude or more to side-step performance unpredictability
issues. Quasar takes a different approach which requires the
user to specify a performance target for an application (e.g.,
99th percentile latency) and translates that into resources
using an approach similar to online recommendation systems like
Netflix or Amazon's. By projecting a small profiling signal for
a new workload against the massive dataset