Abstract
In modern data centers and cloud computing systems, jobs often require resources distributed across nodes providing a wide variety of services. Motivated by this, we study the Coupled Placement problem, in which we place jobs into computation and storage nodes with capacity constraints, so as to optimize some costs or profits associated with the placement. The coupled placement problem is a natural generalization of the widely-studied generalized assignment problem (GAP), which concerns the placement of jobs into single nodes providing one kind of service. We also study a further generalization, the k-Sided Placement problem, in which we place jobs into k-tuples of nodes, each node in a tuple offering one of k services.
For both the coupled and k-sided placement problems, we consider minimization and maximization versions. In the minimization versions (MinCP and Min kSP), the goal is to achieve minimum placement cost, while incurring a minimum blowup in the capacity of the individual nodes. Our first main result is an algorithm for Min kSP that achieves optimal cost while increasing capacities by at most a factor of k + 1, also yielding the first constant-factor approximation for MinCP. In the maximization versions (MaxCP and Max kSP), the goal is to maximize the total weight of the jobs that are placed under hard capacity constraints. Max kSP can be expressed as a k-column sparse integer program, and can be approximated to within a factor of O(k) factor using randomized rounding of a linear program relaxation. We consider alternative combinatorial algorithms that are much more efficient in practice. Our second main result is a local search based combinatorial algorithm that yields a 15-approximation and O(k 2)-approximation for MaxCP and Max kSP respectively.
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Korupolu, M., Meyerson, A., Rajaraman, R., Tagiku, B. (2014). Coupled and k-Sided Placements: Generalizing Generalized Assignment. In: Lee, J., Vygen, J. (eds) Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization. IPCO 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8494. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07557-0_30
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