Energy-saving QoS resource management of virtualized networked data centers for Big Data stream computing

In this chapter, the authors develop the scheduler which optimizes the energy-vs.-performance trade-off in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Virtualized Networked Data Centers (VNetDCs) that support real-time Big Data Stream Computing (BDSC) services. The objective is to minimize the communication-pluscomputing energy which is wasted by processing streams of Big Data under hard real-time constrains on the per-job computing-plus-communication delays. In order to deal with the inherently nonconvex nature of the resulting resource management optimization problem, the authors develop a solving approach that leads to the lossless decomposition of the afforded problem into the cascade of two simpler sub-problems. The resulting optimal scheduler is amenable of scalable and distributed adaptive implementation. The performance of a Xen-based prototype of the scheduler is tested under several Big Data workload traces and compared with the corresponding ones of some state-of-the-art static and sequential schedulers.