Course: EEL6871 Autonomic Computing

Project Information

Discipline

Computer Science (401) 

Subdiscipline

14.09 Computer Engineering 

Orientation

Education 

This course introduces beginning graduate
students to key concepts and techniques underlying the design and
engineering of autonomic computing and networking (AC) systems. AC
systems are IT systems capable of self-management, self-healing,
self-tuning, self-configuration and self-protection. Course content
includes an introduction to the defining characteristics of AC, why it is
necessary, foundational AC principles based on control theory, artificial
intelligence and systems concepts. Also covered are case studies and
technologies used to implement AC systems. Recent papers will be
used to discuss integrated systems and methods for AC.

This project will cover system modeling and controller design techniques in autonomic computing. Also students will be exposed to Hadoop framework, big data analysis and have chances to fine tune Hadoop performance through a closed-loop feedback system.

The results and observations can be used by all scientific researchers that are interested in a self-managing Hadoop system.

Project Contact

Project Lead

Meng Han (menghan) 

Project Manager

Meng Han (menghan) 

Project Members

Giacomo Benincasa, Ying Zhang, Gaurab Dey, Sivaram Muthusubramanian, Sarfaraz Soomro, Varun Ragunathan, Wenjie Zhang, Srivattsan Sridharan  

Resource Requirements

Hardware System

• hotel (IBM iDataPlex at U Chicago)

 

We will use FutureGrid as the testbed for the course project. Students will apply futuregrid Account through the portal and create their own hadoop clusters. On these clusters, they will run several data analysis applications and do some close-loop performance tuning tasks.

We will have 12 students each of whom will have a hadoop cluster with approximately 5-10 VMs. Students will perform some Hadoop performance tuning tasks on these clusters.

Project Timeline

Submitted

08/22/2013 - 16:01