An Approach to Optimized Resource Allocation for Cloud Simulation Platform

Resource allocation for simulation applications in cloud simulation environment brings new challenges to infrastructure service providers. In order to meet the constraint of SLA and to allocate the available virtualized resources optimally, this paper first presents autonomic resource management architecture, and then proposes a resource allocation algorithm for infrastructure service providers who want to minimize infrastructure cost and SLA violations. Our proposed algorithm can maximize the overall profit of infrastructure service providers when SLA guarantees are satisfied or violated in a dynamic resource sharing cloud simulation platform. The experimental evaluation with a realistic workload in cloud simulation platform, and the comparison with the existing algorithm demonstrate the feasibility of the algorithm and allow a cost-effective usage of resources in cloud simulation platform.