3 papers
cs.DC2011★ 2 cited
SPECI-2: An open-source framework for predictive simulation of cloud-scale data-centres
Ilango Leonardo Sriram, Dave Cliff
We introduce Version 2 of SPECI, a system for predictive simulation modeling of large-scale data-centres, i.e. warehouse-sized facilities containing hundreds of thousands of server…
cs.DC2011★ 4 cited
Modelling Resilience in Cloud-Scale Data Centres
John Cartlidge, Ilango Sriram
The trend for cloud computing has initiated a race towards data centres (DC) of an ever-increasing size. The largest DCs now contain many hundreds of thousands of virtual machine (…
cs.DC2011★ 1 cited
Hybrid complex network topologies are preferred for component-subscription in large-scale data-centres
Ilango Sriram, Dave Cliff
We report on experiments exploring the interplay between the topology of the complex network of dependent components in a large-scale data-centre, and the robustness and scaling pr…