A scalable approach for structuring large-scale hierarchical cloud management systems

In recent years, the scale of clouds and networks has increased greatly. It is important to ensure that the management systems used in these environments can scale as well. A centralized system does not scale well, while for distributed approaches, it is difficult to maintain an overview of the global system state. In hierarchical management systems, nodes at a low level in the hierarchy have a detailed view of a small part of the network, while higher-level nodes have a less detailed view of larger parts of the network. This makes hierarchical management systems well suited for large scale systems. The structure of such a hierarchical system should however be impacted by the management system for which it is used, as various properties such as the number of child nodes, tree depth and the distance between nodes can impact the performance of the management system. In this paper, we describe the Scalable Hierarchical Management Framework (SHMF), a scalable approach for constructing a hierarchical management system, suitable for large-scale cloud environments, that automatically optimizes its structure in function of its overlying management system. We evaluate the approach based on the requirements for the cloud application placement problem

Next Generation Cloud Computing: New Trends and Research Directions

The landscape of cloud computing has significantly changed over the last decade. Not only have more providers and service offerings crowded the space, but also cloud infrastructure that was traditionally limited to single provider data centers is now evolving. In this paper, we firstly discuss the changing cloud infrastructure and consider the use of infrastructure from multiple providers and the benefit of decentralising computing away from data centers. These trends have resulted in the need for a variety of new computing architectures that will be offered by future cloud infrastructure. These architectures are anticipated to impact areas, such as connecting people and devices, data-intensive computing, the service space and self-learning systems. Finally, we lay out a roadmap of challenges that will need to be addressed for realising the potential of next generation cloud systems.Comment: Accepted to Future Generation Computer Systems, 07 September 201

A Cybernetics Update for Competitive Deep Learning System

A number of recent reports in the peer-reviewed literature have discussed irreproducibility of results in biomedical research. Some of these articles suggest that the inability of independent research laboratories to replicate published results has a negative impact on the development of, and confidence in, the biomedical research enterprise. To get more resilient data and to achieve higher reproducible result, we present an adaptive and learning system reference architecture for smart learning system interface. To get deeper inspiration, we focus our attention on mammalian brain neurophysiology. In fact, from a neurophysiological point of view, neuroscientist LeDoux finds two preferential amygdala pathways in the brain of the laboratory mouse. The low road is a pathway which is able to transmit a signal from a stimulus to the thalamus, and then to the amygdala, which then activates a fast-response in the body. The high road is activated simultaneously. This is a slower road which also includes the cortical parts of the brain, thus creating a conscious impression of what the stimulus is (to develop a rational mechanism of defense for instance). To mimic this biological reality, our main idea is to use a new input node able to bind known information to the unknown one coherently. Then, unknown "environmental noise" or/and local "signal input" information can be aggregated to known "system internal control status" information, to provide a landscape of attractor points, which either fast or slow and deeper system response can computed from. In this way, ideal cybernetics system interaction levels can be matched exactly to practical system modeling interaction styles, with no paradigmatic operational ambiguity and minimal information loss. The present paper is a relevant contribute to classic cybernetics updating towards a new General Theory of Systems, a post-Bertalanffy Systemics