M2: Malleable Metal as a Service

January 02, 2018 · Entered Twilight · 🏛 2018 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E)

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Authors Apoorve Mohan, Ata Turk, Ravi S. Gudimetla, Sahil Tikale, Jason Hennessey, Ugur Kaynar, Gene Cooperman, Peter Desnoyers, Orran Krieger arXiv ID 1801.00540 Category cs.DC: Distributed Computing Citations 11 Venue 2018 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E) Repository https://github.com/CCI-MOC/ims ⭐ 18 Last Checked 2 months ago

Abstract

Existing bare-metal cloud services that provide users with physical nodes have a number of serious disadvantage over their virtual alternatives, including slow provisioning times, difficulty for users to release nodes and then reuse them to handle changes in demand, and poor tolerance to failures. We introduce M2, a bare-metal cloud service that uses network-mounted boot drives to overcome these disadvantages. We describe the architecture and implementation of M2 and compare its agility, scalability, and performance to existing systems. We show that M2 can reduce provisioning time by over 50% while offering richer functionality, and comparable run-time performance with respect to tools that provision images into local disks. M2 is open source and available at https://github.com/CCI-MOC/ims.