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Autonomic Computing

Autonomic Computing. The vision of autonomic computing, J. Kephart and D. Chess, IEEE Computer , Jan. 2003. Also - A.G. Ganek and T.A. Corbi, “The dawning of the autonomic computing era”, IBM Systems Journal, 42 (1), 2003.

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Autonomic Computing

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  1. Autonomic Computing The vision of autonomic computing, J. Kephart and D. Chess, IEEE Computer, Jan. 2003. Also - A.G. Ganek and T.A. Corbi, “The dawning of the autonomic computing era”, IBM Systems Journal, 42 (1), 2003. - R. Want, T. Pering and D. Tennehouse, “Comparing autonomic and proactive computing”, IBMS Systems Journal, 42 (1), 2003. . Fabián E. Bustamante, Winter 2006

  2. The problem • The main obstacle to further progress in IT industry • Not a change in Moore’s law, but • Looming software complexity crisis • Beyond admin single environments, to integration into intra- and inter-corporate computing systems “Complexity is the business we are in, and complexity is what limits us.”, Fred Brooks Jr. • Better programming won’t do it • Consider • ~1/3 to ½ of a company’s total IT budget goes to preventing and recovering from crashes • “For every dollar to purchase storage, you spend $9 to have someone manage it.”, N. Tabellion, CTO Fujitsu Softek • ~40% of computer outages are caused by operator errors • Average downtime impact for IT ~ $1.4 millions revenue/hour CS 395/495 Autonomic Computing SystemsEECS,Northwestern University

  3. The answer/hope – Autonomic computing • Autonomic systems – can manage themselves given high-level objectives from admins. ~ autonomic nervous system • An autonomic system • Knows itself • Knows its environment & the context surrounding its activity • (Re) configure itself under varying and unpredictable conditions • Is always on the look to optimize its working • Is able to protect and heal itself • Anticipates the optimized resources needed to meet a user’s information needs • To incorporate these characteristics, it must have the following properties/features … CS 395/495 Autonomic Computing SystemsEECS,Northwestern University

  4. Self-* properties • Self-configuration • Current: Data centers made of components from/for multiple vendors/platforms; installation, configuration & integration is time consuming & error prone • Autonomic: Automated based high-level policies, host system adjust itself automatically and seamalessly • Self-optimization • Current: Hundreds of manually set, nonlinear tuning knobs • Autonomic: Components and system continually seek optimization opportunities • Self-healing • Current: e.g. problem determination can take weeks • Autonomic: self detection, diagnosis, and repair for HW&SW • Self-protection • Current: Detection & recovery from attacks & cascading failures is manual • Autonomic: Self-defense using early warning to anticipate & prevent system-wide failures CS 395/495 Autonomic Computing SystemsEECS,Northwestern University

  5. Autonomic manager Analyze Plan Knowledge Monitor Execute Managed element Autonomic element • Autonomic systems – interactive collection of autonomic elements • Autonomic element • 1+ managed elements + autonomic manager that controls it • Function at many levels – from disk drives to entire enterprises • Fixed behavior, connections and relationships gives away to increased dynamism and flexibility expresed as high-level goals CS 395/495 Autonomic Computing SystemsEECS,Northwestern University

  6. Evolution to autonomic systems CS 395/495 Autonomic Computing SystemsEECS,Northwestern University

  7. Engineering challenges • Design, test and verification • Installation and configuration • Monitoring, problem determination, upgrading • Managing the life cycle • Autonomic systems will have multiple elements at different stages, handling multiple tasks, … how to handle all? • Relationships among autonomic elements • Specification of services needed/provided; ways to locate providers; ways to establish SLA; … • Robustness against self-management-based attacks • Goal specification and robustness to wrongly specified goals CS 395/495 Autonomic Computing SystemsEECS,Northwestern University

  8. Scientific challenges • How to understand, control, and design emergent behavior • Understanding the mapping from local to global behavior is not enough • Develop a theory of robustness • Beginning with a definition • Learning and optimization theory • Machine learning by a single element in static environment is just the basic – multiagent systems in dynamic environments • Negotiation theory • How should the multiple elements negotiate? • Automated statistical modeling • Statistical modeling for detection/prediction of performance models; ways to aggregate statistical variables to reduce dimensionality CS 395/495 Autonomic Computing SystemsEECS,Northwestern University

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