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ESE Seminar: “Management Strategies for Hyperscale Datacenters”

November 26, 2019 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Date: November 26, 2019
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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    Electrical and Systems Engineering
    Phone: 215-898-6823
    Venue
    PICS Conference Room 534 – A Wing , 5th Floor 3401 Walnut Street
    Philadelphia
    PA 19104
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    Abstract: Hyperscale datacenters provide critical infrastructure for the information economy, refining data to extract value. Sharing datacenters improves energy efficiency but whether strategic users participate depends on management policies. I address these challenges by integrating practical insights from computer architecture with rigorous methods in algorithmic economics and machine learning. I illustrate this approach for power allocation and performance diagnosis. First, I allocate server power by anticipating strategic behavior and incentivizing participation. I design mechanisms in which users selfishly draw power to boost performance yet avoid oversubscribing the shared supply. Second, I diagnose performance anomalies by inferring interpretable causal relationships. I design statistical frameworks that learn performance models and extract recurring semantic structure from these models with natural language processing. Finally, I conclude by describing future directions for efficient and secure architectures in datacenters and beyond.